Teaching and math

Yesterday the girls had to come to work with me in the morning.

Emma, of her own volition, wrote up a lesson plan, complete with stretching and strength, for Soren and proceeded to teach her for about 30 minutes, until Soren got tired of it all,and gave up.

Then Emma helped me teach my Little Tikes 3-4 yo class by keeping track of one little boy who is much too young and developmentally unready for the class.

She was exhausted at the end! She said it was a lot of work ;). So that was a good learning experience - trying to teach kids, come up with plans, and keep everybody on task.

Last night, for parent's week at the gym, Tom came to watch Soren's class. She got her full back hip circle on the bar - she had it for awhile, but wasn't getting her chest up at the end and she finally "got it!" It was very exciting for everyone.

Emma got her handstand turn dismount off the beam last night too, so it was a good night of physical education.

After we got home, we did about an hour of math. I got some hsing supplies in the mail yesterday and the girls dug through them, and were dying to do some math.

Soren did some sorting and counting and one to one correspondence, and then learned how to make math addition sentences by breaking up sets into different numbers. We also worked on smallest, largest, etc. I realized that even though I have a ton of Cuisenaire Rods, I don't have the colored ones of different lengths - just the ones, tens, hundreds, and thousand block. Darn it!

Emma worked on graphs of odd and even addends, and was learning how to figure out the pattnerns of what the grids would make. Then she made up some of her own. we did need to use some of the rods as a visual aid to help her get the patterns, but it worked beautifully! It was a lot of fun and they didn't want to stop, but it was late.

The first thing Soren is doing this morning (before breakfast even!) is making more math sentences on two more pages of sets. I'm definitely going to go with this math stuff as long as they're interested this week!