Time sure does fly when your kids are growing up. It seems like yesterday that Corey was Karl's age, and in homeschool himself. Now, Corey's a quarter of a century old!
Wow, that makes me feel a bit old, lol. Even though Corey won't be coming into town, and he has his Facebook privatized so nobody,not even his friends, can post on his Wall, I've sent him a couple of messages.
We also made him a cake, and Karl wanted to put 25 candles on it, but I told him we didn't have that many. I'm using this as an opening to move him up to 25 in addition. In about a week, we'll start the subtraction up to 25, but I have to make some of our own flashcards for that.
Making your own flashcards is quite easy, just use heavy paper or light cardboard, and a marker. Make them all the same size, and write in very small size numbers at the top the numbers, with the answer, on the opposite side, using a pen.
Showing posts with label addition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label addition. Show all posts
Friday, January 27, 2012
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Last Thursday to today
Covered animal sciences, with Squeaky the mouse, as well as social studies through interactions and observations on the #9.
In beginning addition, in which he did surprisingly well, and even though he refused help, after begging for it, he got every equation correct on the first two pages of the Spiderman workbook he received for Christmas. For practical math, we went today with his sister and Dylan to a book store, where he sold some of his baby books, and received $8.75 for them. (I then turned around and spent about $7.50 on a couple of new books for him, one is a very well-rounded resource fact book, and the other is a bilingual workbook.) He's not as upset as he originally was about selling his baby books as he was before he got the money for them.
With reading, we covered a few different words again, and then he sounded out a few words on his own. We then discussed exclamation marks, because he thought it was an 'i' and sounded it out, as well.
Geography was covered in the usual way, by using the map on his wall. We also discussed the globe, and I again stressed that even though it looks like a ball, it's not able to bounce like one, and it will break. I'm really hoping he doesn't test me on that point!
In beginning addition, in which he did surprisingly well, and even though he refused help, after begging for it, he got every equation correct on the first two pages of the Spiderman workbook he received for Christmas. For practical math, we went today with his sister and Dylan to a book store, where he sold some of his baby books, and received $8.75 for them. (I then turned around and spent about $7.50 on a couple of new books for him, one is a very well-rounded resource fact book, and the other is a bilingual workbook.) He's not as upset as he originally was about selling his baby books as he was before he got the money for them.
With reading, we covered a few different words again, and then he sounded out a few words on his own. We then discussed exclamation marks, because he thought it was an 'i' and sounded it out, as well.
Geography was covered in the usual way, by using the map on his wall. We also discussed the globe, and I again stressed that even though it looks like a ball, it's not able to bounce like one, and it will break. I'm really hoping he doesn't test me on that point!
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