For those of you who have been following this blog over the summer and the past year, it might seem odd to call this the first week of school. But it’s official – we have started the new year and since DJ is a November baby, this likely would have been his first year if he went to regular school. In some ways I consider last year just a practice year, but DJ accomplished SO much it also feels kinda…
In the last two weeks of August, DJ has been enjoying what will likely be the last of our warm dry weather. We still haven’t “officially” started the school year. But of course that hasn’t slowed DJ’s thirst for learning. He has been driving me a bit crazy with question like “what color does brown, pink and green make?” These questions made me realize that I had not done the color mixing activities in my Keys of the World Montessori…
It has been a full three weeks since I last posted! That’s the longest break since I started this blog just over a year ago. The lack of blog posts is mostly because we’ve been doing a lot of this… DJ was also in a wedding last week. It was an interesting experience trying to explain “wedding” and “marriage” to a 3 year old. He started to understand at one point when I explained mommy and daddy are married. Then…
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…