Want to know what we've got for breakfast? Well, what's 4x8?
Going somewhere in the car? Let's recite multiplication tables the whole way there!
Lied to me about brushing your teeth? That's a 6x table offense, kiddo.
We play multiplication games, such as Roll 'n Multiply, multiplication dominoes, and this awesome-fun DIY Multiplication Touch game that you can make yourself (I've also got a round-up of other DIY math games and manipulatives this week):
We've completed art projects, such as the entire village of "multiplication houses" that Syd and I made on Monday, and dot marker arrays.
The kids each wrote a full, loooooooong factor chart on butcher paper.
I've yet to finish making the hands-on decanomial square for them to assemble, but mat board is 30% off at Hobby Lobby this week!
I've yet to wield flash cards at them, but I have an entire set printed and waiting to be cut out. They're coming!
And if Will's not fully adept by next week, when her math curriculum moves into a place in which she must be adept in order to continue (she can calculate in her head so quickly and easily that she's never bothered with memorizing the multiplication tables, but that extra couple of seconds to figure out 6x8=48 is going to start to seriously add up now that she's moving into more complicated, multi-step calculations), then I'm going to make her do Kumon multiplication drills
every day instead of Math Mammoth; it's very much the stick rather than carrot, but I bet it'll get it done!But for today, at least, math, other than my random questions and forced recitations, is finished. Will has since played Zoo Tycoon, and built a real-life Zoo Tycoon out of building blocks in the middle of our main walking path, and is currently immersed in Day #2 of the observational training required for her Girl Scout Detective badge. Syd got drawn into zoo play for a while, and is now sitting down in front of a stellar late breakfast of an orange, strawberry yogurt, and tapioca pudding. After that I need to corral her for the grammar that Will and I did yesterday while she was in the bathroom making an aquarium for her toy animals. After that, the park if it's not raining (it's going to rain). After that, fingerprinting. After that, Stage Fright on a Summer Night
. After that, homemade pizza!It's looking to be another wonderful day!
2 comments:
Love the penalty for the teeth brushing offense!
Emma is so far enjoying her Math Mammoth stuff. Just yesterday she sat down with her binder and mumbled, "I hate math," only to happily say 10 minutes later, "Math is so much fun!" She really does love numbers and patterns. Thanks for the recommendation!
I'm excited for her to get into multiplication so that I can finally memorize the multiplication tables too. I'm slightly overdue.
So far we are loving the classical approach. This is only week 1, day 4, but there has been little grumbling. I was going to ramble about our schedule, but I think I might just go write a blog post. I'm way overdue for one of those as well.
Here's the post! I really should have dedicated it to you :0)
http://mamaisemmasmama.blogspot.com/2014/03/getting-structured.html
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