Mikro loves Math Start books, and he's now able to skip count by twos and tens. He understands place value (tens and ones) most of the time, and is starting to get it so far as the hundreds go... He's pretty good at adding by regrouping into tens, and his subtraction is improving. We've been reading about sorting and classifying into sets, geometric solids, subtraction, possible combinations, finding unknowns, place value to the hundreds, collecting data, percentages, and reading a schedule.
We had our last 2 Mad Science classes before the summer break. The first was about the atmosphere and life support, the second was about building telescopes and testing soil for evidence that it could support life.
And, of course, we've done some science reading:
And some history:
And some just plain fun reading:
And we looked at some poetry writing how tos and wrote some acrostic poems and some haiku. I taught Mikro to count syllables by humming...
Kevin showed the boy how to make fire using a lens and the sun. We also worked in the garden, and practiced spelling (a lot-- he is suddenly fascinated with it!) and handwriting (both with crayons and with sidewalk chalk...) and did some drawing. More days than not, we've done our learning out in the yard, soaking up the spring sunshine...
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