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…
Geography: I presented the USA puzzle map last week. This is a BIG work for DJ. In this photo he’s pointing to the state where we live. I showed him the states where his dad & I was born and all the places we’ve each lived. I also showed him where his grandparents live. We then placed all the pieces on the control map and he replaced them as I named them for him. For some reason he insists on…
Part of the Geography sequence includes Continent Folders or Boxes. Folders would include pictures of various cultural aspects of each continent while boxes hold cultural objects. I chose to go with boxes and started putting them together last fall. They are still a work in progress but they will be used for years so as I collect new items, they’ll be added to the box. But what I have now is a good enough selection to show what I have…
I’m terribly late in writing this post. It should have been written at the end of last week but I just didn’t feel like it. So thank you for waiting patiently! Since there wasn’t anything new on the shelves last week, DJ selected some old favorites. The Land & Water forms hadn’t been touched for months but he started off the day with an eager “let’s do these!” I was impressed with how much he remembered. He still can’t say…