Little by little we are now starting to work with numbers, and it seems, there's nothing a simple set of DIY cards can't start off.
So far, O has very smoothly taken into matching sticks and numbers. The drill here is this. O choses numbers and '-', '+' "=' on the instruction from me and lays them out. Unless it's something like 1+1 or 1+2, which he can do 'inside his head', he then matches the right no of sticks to the number, counts them together and choses the number to replace the totalling sticks, to put at the end. ( We'd covered the 'take away' concept briefly, but decided to let additions settle first).
Yes, sometimes he forgets to count out the right number of sticks, confuses '6' with '9', or lets his mind wonder off completely here and there, but all is smooth and predictable with our numbers game so far. He's getting to know the sequence of events here, no alarms and no surprises.
I understand that it might be because we just starting on it, but I'm glad, too. It's nice having something to go at a nice pace. With other stuff we are going through some dramatic notions already. Reading and phonics, for example. Oliver found it really tricky to start with, then we had a nice period where he was getting it all, sounding the sounds and 'glueing' them together, and all was becoming easy until the next step just today.
With writing, too. He had a brilliant start where all seemed just too easy and then, a complete set back when he seemed to 'unlearn' everything to suddenly catch up again, unexpectedly, today. More about this in the next 2 posts.
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