My introduction of static addition was a little premature last week. So I backed up and introduced the Change Game to DJ. This game starts by taking a random quantity of beads and making a royal mess of them on a tray. You then order the beads into their categories, units, tens, hundreds and thousands. Once ordered, you begin to count them. You begin counting units and when you get to 10, you exchange them for a 10-bar. When you…
Look what we did today!! This is called the 45-Layout or Bird’s Eye View. This is a BIG work but DJ had a lot of fun with it. We actually did almost all of the work on the carpet until we got to the last stack of 9 thousand cubes and couldn’t get them to not topple over. So we moved the entire layout for the final picture! This is DJ laying out the units. Sorry this picture is so…
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…