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Simple geography

Sandra — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 19:58:29 +0000

... Little brother climbed up on the table at this point and started putting pieces on the board (he loved the magnetic part!). He kept shouting, "I found a united state!" as he slapped a new piece down somewhere on the map. :)

We also have an inflatable globe ball that we sometimes play with, but it's been deflated for the winter since it was being used more as a Destroyer Of The House than an educational tool. Perhaps I can test their upgraded maturity levels this summer and try to re-introduce it. 0_o ... Read more...

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Math Monday: Sticker Bar Graphs

Sandra — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 19:49:45 +0000

... As I watched them play, I thought this might be a good opportunity to practice some grouping skills with the boys and work in an introduction to graphs. I grabbed some dry-erase markers and drew up simple horizontal and vertical axes on the window, with numbers going up the side and categories of objects going across. (trains, cars, planes, people) N caught on pretty quickly and had fun searching out like objects from the sticker pages, deciding which category they fit into, and stacking them so they lined up with the numbers on the vertical axis. It turned out to be a pretty successful (based on his level of interest) "math lesson" for the day ~ this always makes the ex-math-teacher mama bear happy :). ... Read more...

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Spelling for Fun

Sandra — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 19:41:58 +0000

... I suggested he put random letters on the bag or try to write words with the stickers. He wanted to write "N's amazing rock collection" but settled for "rocks." This simple activity spurred some great learning moments:

He sounded out the word and decided he needed the letters R O C. I asked what other letter made a "cah" sound and he remembered that K did. We talked about how English is a silly language because people a long time ago made it up by combining a lot of different rules and then they changed most of those rules, so here we are today using two letters that make the same sound to spell a simple word like Rock. He was okay with that.

He knew he needed to add an S but couldn't explain why, so I reminded him that adding an S makes things plural. I'd never taught him this before, but he learned it somewhere. ... Read more...

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