We went to my sister, Laurel's house this day. I brought a few books for family reading and our math games for school. My 5-year-old nephew, Sam, loved playing math games. He wanted to play more and more. We did checkers style games and dice rolling/ adding games. Some timed, some taking turns. His attitude helped the other kids stay interested in having a good attitude and still playing. After a while of free playing, Noel came to me and asked what 8 plus 8 was. I asked her how she could know. Same jumped in and suggested using her fingers which she immediately did. With very little prodding, Sam and Noel combined came up with three different ways to add and one way to write an equation (Sam already learned at kindergarten). It was totally awesome.
We also read from our book The Fairy's Mistake and listened to Laurel read Lillianne's book. She's been writing it herself (dictating to Laurel.) It is SO AWESOME. We all loved it. It's spontaneous, creative, and engaging. Also, hilarious. That was a great reading class. Later Amy rewrote a book she already wrote.
It was nice to take a break from home because I still would love to be on vacation.
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