Twice yesterday Elsie came up to me and showed how she could count with her fingers the Chisanbop way. This morning she wanted to know if she could do Chisanbop again. I hadn’t been planning on it, but told her I would. Peter said “Awwwww!” in a dissatified grunt, so I let him do his regularly scheduled dot-to-dot while Elsie had her special Chisanbop lesson. Today we did single digit addition.
Elsie then completed a rhyming words and a missing sounds worksheet.
Toby got his Chisanbop lesson this morning. He already knew all the stuff Elsie did, because he had been eavesdropping. He caught on like a spark in dry wood, and crackled quickly through his two digit addition practice. Some of the problems were so easy he knew the answer immediately and didn’t work the problems the Chisanbop way. I’ll have to find some more challenging worksheets tomorrow!
Moriah and Samuel worked together to fill in a 10 by 10 multiplication grid.
Moriah, Samuel and Toby all had ‘finish the sentence and illustrate it’ worksheets. Quite suddenly today Toby decided he wanted to learn to write lowercase letters, and did a neat and careful job writing his sentence “Ten tarantulas tickled a dog and it laughed.” Samuel, of course, printed his sentence using block letters. (Our theory of handwriting is that children must be able to write neatly at least one way, read other peoples handwriting, and sign their name. Time spent doing worksheets in varying methods that the child is uniterested in is nearly useless, as they will revert to writing the way that comes naturally when grown).
