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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some people here seem to think they are an expert on how gifted children behave.

Here's what Hoagies' gifted has to say about boredom in gifted kids: http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/never_say_bored.htm[/quote]

I've had continuing education classes on this topic and totally disagree.  I've lived it with truly gifted children in my classes see how they create their own stimulation with whatever is presented.  For example, if I we were doing a journal entry for the 78th time that school year (first grade) and I ask the children to write a fiction story, a gifted child's story will be longer, contain amazing details (often using non-fiction supporting details or fantasy details).  The one that I can recall right now was written by a first grade boy about a mummy which seems innocent enough and typical enough for a first grader) but this one had details about the Egyptian sarcophagus', why they were used, how they looked, etc.  Nearly all first grade boys would write a FICTION mummy story about mummies with a focus about the Halloween-aspect of a mummy story.

When we wrote letters one year, one gifted student took the assignment and wrote the letter so it when vertically down the page with one word (Dear) and then two (Sweet Mom,) and then three, etc. so the whole letter went numerically increasingly down the page until it reached 26 numbered words in the line.  (He asked for tape to tape pages together.  If we were doing relatively simple math, a gifted child would hand in her sheet and there was the right answer circled each time but next to it there might have been 5-6 different ways shown how she came up with the right answer using different methods.   [/quote]

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