My wife just got back from a parent/teacher conference for my 4 year old's pre-kindergarten class.
The teachers said that he is "absolutely the smartest child we've ever seen". He can count to 100 in English, to 20 in Spanish and to 10 in Korean. He can identify all of the shapes they were able to throw at him, numbers, knows all of the letters - upper and lower case, is reading at the 1st grade level, can identify all of the planets (in the correct order), most of the states and some of the capitals, is polite, attentive and is a "pleasure to be around". He cleans up after himself, helps the other children with their classwork, and even corrects the teachers (politely, of course), when they've made a wrong statement. They've had to give him more advanced assignments to keep him busy, since he finishes the "normal" classwork in seconds. And he's also 4 months younger than the next youngest kid in this class. He's a little behind in social skills, but way ahead of every other kid in academic skills.
They said that if he keeps up at this rate, he'll probably graduate high school a few years early and will sail through college. :study: I'm sure he'll get beat up a lot, too. :geek: Good thing he's in Tae Kwon Do three days a week already!
This kid knew shapes when he was 2, letters by the time he was 3 and was reading simple words even before we enrolled him in this school. He absorbes data like a sponge, everything he ever sees to hears go into long-term memory... He'll bring up stuff from 2 years ago and talk about it like it just happened.
The only problem is that when he's home he's a pain in the butt, talks non-stop and generally acts like a 4 year old. He argues with me about everything - mostly stuff he has no idea about. He tries to control or manipulate me and my wife into doing what he wants. He tries to tell me which way to turn when we're driving somewhere, even if he's never been there before. Then he gets pissed at me if I go the opposite way. The teachers say that he does none of this in school, and we should to work with him more at home in order to keep him occupied.
He used to like his slice of pizza cut into "2 triangles and a trapazoid". After an incident at the local pizza place where the counter guy couldn't figure out how to cut it like that, he stopped asking for it that way and decided to eat it "like a man in one big triangle" (his words).
This boy is gonna be a big problem for me in the next few years... :glasses3:
I'm gonna stop on the way home and pick him up something, I'll see if Toys 'R Us has a big set of Matchbox cars or something. I think he deserves a good present!
My mother bought him a small set of Matchbox cars for Christmas... His favorite car in the bunch? The puke-green '69 Daytona.
The teachers said that he is "absolutely the smartest child we've ever seen". He can count to 100 in English, to 20 in Spanish and to 10 in Korean. He can identify all of the shapes they were able to throw at him, numbers, knows all of the letters - upper and lower case, is reading at the 1st grade level, can identify all of the planets (in the correct order), most of the states and some of the capitals, is polite, attentive and is a "pleasure to be around". He cleans up after himself, helps the other children with their classwork, and even corrects the teachers (politely, of course), when they've made a wrong statement. They've had to give him more advanced assignments to keep him busy, since he finishes the "normal" classwork in seconds. And he's also 4 months younger than the next youngest kid in this class. He's a little behind in social skills, but way ahead of every other kid in academic skills.
They said that if he keeps up at this rate, he'll probably graduate high school a few years early and will sail through college. :study: I'm sure he'll get beat up a lot, too. :geek: Good thing he's in Tae Kwon Do three days a week already!
This kid knew shapes when he was 2, letters by the time he was 3 and was reading simple words even before we enrolled him in this school. He absorbes data like a sponge, everything he ever sees to hears go into long-term memory... He'll bring up stuff from 2 years ago and talk about it like it just happened.
The only problem is that when he's home he's a pain in the butt, talks non-stop and generally acts like a 4 year old. He argues with me about everything - mostly stuff he has no idea about. He tries to control or manipulate me and my wife into doing what he wants. He tries to tell me which way to turn when we're driving somewhere, even if he's never been there before. Then he gets pissed at me if I go the opposite way. The teachers say that he does none of this in school, and we should to work with him more at home in order to keep him occupied.
He used to like his slice of pizza cut into "2 triangles and a trapazoid". After an incident at the local pizza place where the counter guy couldn't figure out how to cut it like that, he stopped asking for it that way and decided to eat it "like a man in one big triangle" (his words).
This boy is gonna be a big problem for me in the next few years... :glasses3:
I'm gonna stop on the way home and pick him up something, I'll see if Toys 'R Us has a big set of Matchbox cars or something. I think he deserves a good present!
My mother bought him a small set of Matchbox cars for Christmas... His favorite car in the bunch? The puke-green '69 Daytona.
