Swan Lake Recital

Several Saturdays ago it snowed and for some reason I banned our computer (I was probably writing something and needed complete privacy and quiet). The children disappeared for a time to the far corners of the basement. There they let the seeds of imagination and invention sprout until they had choreographed their own rendition of Swan Lake.

I was invited and sold a ticket. Emma and I sat in the audience of dolls and stuffed animals.

Dear Shawna: Math

Shawna is our home school facilitator and we use our blog as a means of letting her know what we are doing with our education. These posts could be used as possible reference for other home schoolers (not that I am someone of reference but perhaps what works for us might work for someone else - you never know). So, with no further ado...

Dear Shawna,
Liam and Tansy are using the worksheets from math-drills.com.


Tansy is working daily on her multiplication and long division. The goal is to make sure she is proficient in the basics before we move on to algebra.


Liam has a firm understanding of the concept (he adds in his head and uses his fingers one and two digit numbers). We have never really sat him down for any formal math study. He has picked up his knowledge through play and perhaps observation. Any worksheets he does is a form of play now. He enjoys to do what we call 'window math'.


http://www.math-drills.com/addition/add_horiz_one-digit_001.pdf



http://www.math-drills.com/multiplication/mult030236_001.pdf


http://www.math-drills.com/division/div0301nr_003.pdf




Most of Tansy's work is done using waterproof markers on the windows in the kitchen. We call this 'window math'. This is one way we excite the children to do some figures.