Our family participated in a community yard sale today and it was a huge success for us. We came home with a tall stack of bills, which is rather unique in our house because we almost exclusively deal in credit cards and electronic transfers. I counted that stack of bills while DJ was at soccer and it occurred to me that we could use his Golden Bead material to count it and see how much it was. (For the record,…
I’ve been on furlough from homeschooling the past couple of weeks mostly because I was a bit burned out and looking forward to the summer. But there is no stopping DJ. He’s like the Energizer Bunny, if anyone recognizes that reference. As mentioned in recent posts DJ has been crazy about math lately. Last week, he selected the Pink Tower for the first time in a long time so he could count the number of cubes. As he was putting…
DJ is moving slowly through the early Golden Bead work. This involves matching the large number cards to the corresponding cubes, squares, tens and units. He enjoys this work but it is challenging for him so we are taking it very slow. Today we set up number cards in 4 rows on one side of the room and then 9 of each cube, square, tens and units in rows on the other side. Then we played a game where I…
DJ has been all about math lately. He is really keeping me on my toes because I didn’t expect to need to be prepared for these activities for another 6 months or more! The following activities in this post have been done over the past 2 to 3 weeks. One of DJ’s favorite games right now is called “Touch it quick!” We set the sandpaper numbers out in a random pattern and I call out numbers for him to touch…