Today seemed a very short school day, mostly because it was a dance day AND Babe asked for a nap after lunch. Very weird. But we got Math and Reading Comp. done before lunch.
In Math we started something completely new and different, so it was very exciting. Babe learned about sets, complete and incomplete. After introducing the idea to her, I brought out a few manipulatives and asked her to create some sets - a set consisting of one dog to one block.
Piece of cake!!!
I went ahead a bit and introduced the idea of addition and subtraction, taking away a couple of blocks and asking her how many complete sets there were, then adding a few dogs and asking the same. I have a feeling she will continue to breeze through Math.
After a number of Calvert-assigned worksheets, she was very comfortable with complete and incomplete sets. Too cool.
We jumped right into Reading Comprehension where I let her read the book, "I Need a Lunch Box" by Jeannette Caines. Another cute book! When we got to the end of the story, Babe immediately saw the surprise lunch box behind the dad's back and got really excited for the little boy before she read the words on the page.
"Oh cool a rocket ship lunch box! He's going to love it!"
Then on the last page, both sentences ended with exclamation points, so she yelled them really loudly. Babe is getting especially good at picking up on the reading cues in the pictures and figuring out how to say each sentence. It's really cool watching her process each page. I love it.
Even though this book was part of her Reading Comp. lesson, she did read it all by herself, so I had her add it to the reading log. She got really excited.
"We are almost to 20 already!"
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