Curriculum Picks for My Gifted 4 Year Old | Jan 2024

Your son sounds so much like mine when he was 4! Sounds like he will have a wonderful year and has a very good teacher! ❤

I used to use explode the code online for my daughter when she was 4. She learnt to read using it very well. She was fluently reading by the time she got to kindergarten. I used Learning to Read by Christian Light publications when I taught my second oldest daughter to read at age 4. It also does a good job. She was able to sign herself into kindergarten first and last name and read well when she was enrolled in her first parochial school at the beginning of kindergarten. She is above grade level in her reading abilities today. She is a straight A student easily and needs advanced placement classes. I recommend both of those programmes. I am using Christian Light's learning to Read again with my average kindergarten and 1st graders.

Love your resource suggestions thanks!

Those are so nice. Wish I would have known about these when my little one was four. She has loved learning since she was a baby and I had to get her started with informal homeschooling fairly early. Blessings sweet mama. Thank you for sharing! 🙏☺️

Oooh so fun!!!! If you ever want a nature/animal/biology type curriculum similar to the style of books read and video format then you might love Idlewild Curriculum. We also work well on that format using a mix of real books and living books with videos going down rabbit trails about what we have learned. My gifted kiddos are loving it! It’s goes as far as they need it to. Thought I’d let you know because what Stephen likes sounds similar to what my kids also love. I just casually add on geography about places, activity kits, poetry etc as I feel inspired. They are loving the DK and Smithsonian spines and the Bible add on is beautiful and not kitschy ❤ I hope your little boy has the very best time digging into engineering this spring!

Thank you for sharing! So much fun. For reading (phonics) I use the good and the beautiful "booster cards" I believe that will be all you need to learn to read but if practice I have been doing crafts with my kids and they are enjoying it.

For my gifted boy we started teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons at 3.5 and then started midway through AAR level 1. We are now in level 2 which is great but may be too slow. He’s started to take off so I wonder if we should continue. I’d say he’s reading 2nd to 3rd grade level now. 🤷🏼‍♀️ he just turned 5.

In all about reading I had to skip the activities and the word card reviews because we didn’t need to review. My daughter is 6 and she is starting level 4. She could have completed level 4 at 5, but we took a breaks because I got bored haha! I love AAR but I definitely use it as a guide and adjust as needed. The positive is they aren’t slowed down by writing with AAR since it’s only reading.

My gifted daughter hated all about reading. OG programs were initially developed for kids with reading disabilities, but also do work well for average children. My kids did much better just practicing reading and using explode the code!

For logic workbooks, have you tried the beast academy books? My 5 year old loves the puzzles there, but he doesn’t like the look of the beast characters and he won’t read the guide, so we don’t use it as a math curriculum. Otherwise it’d be a great fit for math purposes. He loves the challenge problems in Singapore math.

My son has been reading since age 3. He’s almost 5 now and can read at a 2nd-3rd grade level. Any advice on where to start with formal lessons. The last 2 years he’s just been reading on his own. I do logic of English with my 6 soon to be 7 year old daughter we are about to start level C. I was planning on checking where he lands with logic of English, but not sure if it’s the right move. Any experience or advice is appreciated. Thanks!

Oh and the critical thinking co has an email list and they send you free samples of their puzzles to help you pinpoint which ones you might want.

I don't think your son is gifted . My daughter 4 and been reading at 3 she now doing 1st grade work in math and Grammer that doesn't means that they are gifted

Girl u do not sound gifted 😂