“Thank you for these poems, Mommy! They’re so amazing!” Said my little joy, Naynay aged six since the 16th of this month.❤️ “Thank you for doing school! I luuuurve school! It’s my favourite thing!”
My girl is proving to be a challenge. She’s perfectly at grade level for Maths for America, advanced for South Africa as we’ve always known and as our educational psychologist noted. She runs through every Maths situation and understands the first time I explain it then races through before I’ve given the next instruction! She has a wonderful memory. Glorious memory that even made her ten year old sister exclaim yesterday.
I have added some Cambridge subjects to her school life because she has such a thrust for knowledge. As I showed Ammy what she’d do next (I put them at the same grade level for Geography), and what her textbook looks like, Naynay exclaimed, “I’ll show you the two friends! There are two friends to teach you!”
I had no idea what she was talking about. But she sure did! We had only done two lessons in one day last week or the week before, and she recalled that there were two children in the textbook who teach! Her sister had leafed through the book and SHE hadn’t noted them!
So what’s the delightful problem?
She’s too ahead with her reading and spelling! I’ve moved onto a new grade for those even though she’s at the lower kindergarten level for Maths. But she smashed the first story in record time! So much for it hopefully being challenging!
But as you saw in the video, a child who can read the word “ awesome” is NOT going to struggle with these words below. Nor with the activity! She did this type perfectly twice before so I don’t plan on making her do it again today!
She noticed the box with her next grade level had arrived and she was excited!! So excited! “Look! Look! Our name! It’s our name on the box! The Good and the Beautiful!” (No, I can’t tell you why it’s “our” name.) She quickly grabbed her grade 1 reader. And didn’t even struggle except for typical ADHD stuff.
It’s glorious having THIS kind of problem! I’ve bought lots of books at different levels that will be stimulating and challenging. As she said about her list of words in her current curriculum, as she said about Maths, “This is so easy! It’s boring.” And so, on we move!
They said I should write a book 
Am glad she is a quick leaner, may she continue like that without ever wanting to draw back. we just hope and pray that as she grows the other issues will not overpower her desire to learn.
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