I am running out of ideas to teach my 4 year old. She can read pretty much anything. She was assessed last year in Nursery reading at an age 10 level. She excels in Maths and can count to over 100, add, subtract and divide. She is currently learning her times tables and how to multiply.
She loves science and understands biology of plants, animals and the human body. She has an app which teaches her the alchemy and chemistry. She knows most of the elements table.
In her nursery school she was getting very upset because the other children kept getting stickers and she wasn't. I asked them why and they had no reason and the next day she came home with 5 stickers. They was giving her books with no words in and after her being assessed they told me they can not go out of the curriculum to suit one child who can read.
I know she isn't a 'normal' child for 4. She plays Minecraft and watches you tube videos. She enjoys reading about dinosaurs and history. She teaches me things that I didn't even know.
Everyone tells me how good she is at speaking. She sounds posh the way she talks.
She is also learning Spanish and Geography. She understands the world map and knows all the capital cities. She goes on Google Earth. Currently she is very interested in China and wants to know why she can't see China on Google earth.
Here are some of the questions she asked me last night:
What is the world temperature in China.
Why do Americans have wooden houses and we have brick.
She wanted to know how the Romans built roads and walls.
She then asked about world food and how it was made. Asking me what people eat in China and New Zealand.
She then asked me about natural disasters and told me about volcanoes, earthquakes, floods and hurricanes.
I was not this bright at 4. I think I knew my colours and how to count to 10.
Anyhoo.. I am very worried about her starting another new school (due to the bidding system). I took her out of her old school as she seemed to be regressing and coming home crying or with an attitude. She kept telling me she hated me. And became a different child. Over the past 3 months she has now become back to her lovely and inquisitive self again and has not told me she hates me once.
I am worried the teachers won't be able to answer her questions she has and that she won't get the attention she needs. She gets very upset if people don't listen to her when she is telling them information.
Should I just see how this school goes without telling the teachers her needs or should I home school her? I am at home all day anyway with my 8 month old.
Thanks.