a bit of a wwyd for the parents G&T kids.

[DancingIceDragons]

Ds(6yo) is very bright and has an astounding ability to absorb and understand anything scienetific. He has recently astounded me with his ability to read resulting in him access the more specific mechanics of sex. dumbass I forgot to check how they covered reproduction in a science book about how the body worked earlier this year.

The thing is due to complete chaos after a failed attempt at a PGCE i have had some gcse and keystage 3 science revision and text books sat in the bath. (emergency storage, we use the shower). Ds loves to read them.

Would you leave them for him to read and thus be further scarily ahead of his peers science wise and probably bored at high school when he gets there or would you quietly put them away for when it is considered more age appropriate. letting him get his science information in a less curriculum orientated display?

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he will spend hours poring over them

when he is not thumbing his precious compendium of road signs or redesigning the London Underground

or studying evolutionary tendencies to try to predict what extraterrestrials might look like

also Flanimals, he loved those and designed hundreds of his own!

we did the mentos in coke one at ds1's "mad science" birthday party! his grandad made a volcano to put the coke bottle inside and it had slow-burning fuel inside so it smoked ominously all afternoon and then blew at the last minute

we did a display of tricks with a plasma ball too - lighting a match on it, lighting up a light bulb, electrocuting somebody with it

also dying celery by osmosis

and designing a giant buzzer/wand thing

also water/lemon/potato powered clocks/LEDs etc

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those books look interesting. I will be glad when his concentration span catchs up with his brain's demands to learn. Means i dont have to worry about the amount of text in his books. He is young yet, so not worrying.

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Also ds wants a science party. the mad science - is it a company or just something that you organised?

As i know ds likes to pick things apart down to partical level so I have left lemon powered clocks until i though he could process the answer to the questions he would discover. I suspect as he is talking about the difference between partical arrangements in metals vs gases, i think we might get a science investigation type kit for his birthday. Christmas is banned from science stuff as the two fall close.

He is a lot of fun to be around and the failure of my pgce was very :( in a lot of respects but has meant that i know how to access resources that he benefits froms.

We did our mad science party ourselves, but there are companies out there that will do it for you - we just thought we could do a better job for less money

our ds1 is 8 not 6 so some of my ideas probably aren't quite suitable yet - worth bearing in mind though, ds1 has remained relentlessly and delightfully obsessed with all things sciency and I don't see it changing any time soon

don't worry about your pgce, it sounds as though you are doing a fantastic job with him and he is lucky to have a parent who is interested in being in his world and being excited with him. I desperately want to do a pgce but haven't applied for it yet so similar self-flagellation going on here!

oh lord pop up books dont last he has to take them apart to figure out how they work

Re IEP, I suspect so. The school have been very involved with him since before he started. He has special warnings, visual timetable and other things. he is in a school with specialist training and facilities. But he is also very hgih functioning and incorporates coping strategies really well so can appear normal to an outsider. His teacher has said that it is very hard to remember he is the youngest in the class when looking at his academic ability. He is in YR1 but in a predominantly Yr2 class. There are a number of fine brains in his class and i think they keep him on his toes, especially as the approach things from a more emotional pov. He is noted to have a strong science background but teachers arent surprised based on parentage.

it helps when the school is working with you. glad of that.

ds' school is really focusing on building his social skills and putting in the older class has made a huge difference to his ability to cope with peers. He can relate to to firmer social boundaries the yr2s have discoveredm whilst the yr1s are still discovering. He is happier now that he feels he can pretend to be normal.

Am considering do a space exploration mystery type party thing. that incorporates the science and yet keeps it at a level that his friends can relate to.

HannahHack - I have been taking DS(8) to the Natural History Museum since he was a toddler. He has never shown the slightest interest in the dinosaurs, but always makes a beeline for the Human Body section where he will sit for ages watching the film re reproduction and fetal development over and over again, whilst I wilt with boredom. He is obviously destined to be either an obstetrician or a sex pest

Yes and if you think he's getting too tall, stick a right heavy book to his head to stunt his growth - tsk!

Let him read them!

They have been relocated to his bookshelf. He got cross that gramps was also reading them. They are now his.
At least they aren't cluttering the bathroom anymore which was what was driving me mad. So all are happy, well apart from gramps.