DJ has officially completed his second year of Montessori preschool at home. I can hardly believe that I just typed those words. I know it is such a cliche to say that. I continue to be amazed, impressed, frustrated and humbled by this little person who has stolen my heart and challenges me in ways I’ve never imagined. MATH Looking back at the posts of the last year, math obviously dominated the spotlight. There are 71 mentions of math throughout…
As DJ began working with skip counting by 5’s, I began to think of money, particularly 5 pennies adding up to a nickel and 5 nickels adding up to a quarter. I thought I remembered seeing a money game or coin game on a blog somewhere but when I went looking I found several versions but none that were exactly what I was looking for. So I made my own! I made this template in word using Google images of…
I had intended for DJ to do more static addition to be sure he understood it but he started a problem while I was making breakfast and he misread the number. The font I used for the numbers has a little dash at the top of the 1 and he confused that with a 7. He was already beginning to combine the two sets of stamps to get his answer when I noticed it. But I shouldn’t have worried, he…
DJ is beginning to get back into the rhythm of doing school each week and he’s been doing really well writing his numbers. So I presented static addition with the stamp game. I printed a page of problems for him, making sure that none of the columns added up to more than 9. In the picture above he is working on the problem 1,521 + 3,407. He builds the first numbers with stamps, a green thousand, 5 red hundreds, 2…