For the Love of Math

When Daddy asked G what he liked to learn best, G's reply was, "Math!" Today we did a few simple addition and subtraction problems on his white board, then G wanted to do the writing. He wrote:

100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
+100
_____
1200

Following his lead, I showed him how to work a double and triple digit addition problem. I don't know that it stuck, but exposure is the key right now, and I'm excited about it. It's amazing where kids can go if we let them hold the reigns every once in a while.

Behavior Jar

Someone on one of my yahoo groups posted this today and G loved the idea. We took a small jar and pasted on some tissue paper squares with watered down Elmer's glue. Each time I notice G doing something helpful, kind, or having a good attitude, he gets to put a marble in the jar. Whenever I see him whining, complaining or being disobedient, we take a marble out of his jar. When he collects 25 marbles, he gets a quarter.

We've only had the jar for a couple of hours, but they have been a couple of the most helpful, cooperative hours we've ever had! Let's see how long this lasts!

Microscope Fun!

We got the microscope out today and took a peek at some things Grandma sent from Georgia. We looked at Grandma's dog's hair, Grandma's hair, Grandpa's hair and a leg from a GA spider. G drew out what each thing looked like under the microscope and we e-mailed his observations to Grandma so she could see it too.

Crocheted Pot Holder

I found this project as I was checking out new blogs the other day and just HAD to try it. Here's my version:

The Duchess Bakes a Cake - Science

On Friday we made bread dough to see the rising effect of the yeast.

Creative Love

Here are a couple of things G has created this week:

This one was for me, because he loves me. :-)

And this one is for Grandma because she's always nice to him and he wanted to do something special for her. It's about 3 1/2 feet tall! I'm not sure how she'll get it home.

The Duchess Bakes a Cake - Catapult

This week we are reading The Duchess Bakes a Cake by Virginia Kahl. There are lots of great vocabulary words and new concepts in this story that we are exploring this week. Today we used plastic spoons to catapult mini M&Ms into each others' mouths. We also viewed videos on www.youtube.com of home made catapults and human catapults. :-)