From one to one hundred...


 


Well we jumped back into some learning at home today although I had planned to take this week off. It was actually Evie who wanted to do it though and that's really encouraging for me because it was a great reminder that she does love to learn even if she sometimes needs some breaks. I really enjoy doing these activities with her and sometimes it feels like maybe it's me that really wants to do it and maybe she should just be playing all day. So when she asks to learn or do an activity I'm reminded that it's not just for me and that she truly doesn't want to just play all the time. She is actively seeking out knowledge and learning too. Anyway today she wanted to make "puzzles" with her math erasers. We snagged these from the Target dollar spot like a year ago and they have been really great for working with numbers. I set up a few simple addition and subtraction problems for her and she did really great at figuring out the answers (which were all 5 by the way). In school she's been working on how there are different ways to make each number and this felt like an extension of that. 




We are also working on counting to 100. Evie has 1-20 pretty much down and solid but after that she gets a little wobbly so we're working on learning the pattern to the numbers and today she made it all the way to 100! She was VERY excited about making it all the way to 100 even though she needed a little help along the way. I think she's going to have this down in no time. After she finished the problems I gave her she gave me some as well and then she had to solve her own to double check if i was right. It was pretty fun and I'm not the biggest fan of math (although ironically it's what I do all day long at work). I love that we can learn by having fun together. :) 



 

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