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[quote=Anonymous]I remember helping my kindergardner with her "100 days of school" project. She had to stick 100 things on a board to show that 100 days of school had passed.  I saw this as a huge learning opportunity to teach her how to do such projects.  She and I,  identified 10 geometric shapes and cut them out on different colored paper.  Then we found 10 different types of beans, labelled their names, and stuck them on the geometric shapes in groups of 10.  We clustered each group as an addition fact  (1 + 9, 2+8, 3+7, 4+6, 5+5,  1+2+7, 2+2+6  etc) and then finally stuck the shapes on a grid on a poster board.   If my kid would have been overwhelmed then of course we would have done something simpler, but I wanted to see how much she could comprehend and if she had good pattern recognition skills. She certainly surpassed my expectations.  She is doing well in her field now.

My philosophy is that every kid has the same 24 hours in the day and by and large the same resources at home (food, shelter, warmth, access to education).  If the parents want to enrich or accelerate the education at home and the kid has the executive function skills to handle it, why not?

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