These have been our math manipulatives for the last couple of weeks. Here they are lined up from largest to smallest. We usually use a lot of manipulatives with my son. But not this week. It was interesting to see how a 5-year old deals with something very abstract, such as numbers. Last week, while […]
We’ve had such a great time with Marilyn Burns’s The Greedy Triangle book that I want to share it here on the blog. If you haven’t read this story, it is about a triangle that one day got tired of doing the same old things. It thought that if he only had one more side […]
I’ve started giving my 5-year old an allowance of $2 per week. Last week he didn’t get to spend any of his money. So before going to a flea market I reminded him that he had not $2, but $4 ($2 from last week and $2 from this week) in his “account”. His first reaction […]
The last few days my son’s play is full of numbers. All of a sudden he started noticing numbers everywhere, on and in everything. He wants to know how big his collection of garbage trucks is. He also wants to know what “50” looks like. Then he makes up a chant/game that goes “1 is […]
