Three. Two. Five.

I'm going to start off with a video of Babe's book from yesterday.

Today, Math was VERY fun. I started off by quizzing her on the spelling of all 11 numbers she has learned so far. Guess who aced it!?

I gave her five stickers on her sheet and she was enamored. I told her I was so proud of her for learning this and remembering it!

We moved on to the introduction of the number line. I showed her how it worked and ran to her room to grab a toy animal that hopped. I was looking for a rabbit, but a frog was just as good. Especially since I still had those Halloween manipulatives, the flies, handy. It worked out perfectly.

I started off by putting the fly on one of the numbers, with the frog on zero. Then I showed her how the frog hops to the fly, and you count each hop to get to the fly. She did this a few times with ease. Then I made it a bit harder and introduced simple addition to it. I put the frog and the fly on two different numbers and asked her how many hops it took the frog to get to the fly.

I made a worksheet and on one side I made simple addition problems. I told her the first number is where the frog starts, and the second number is how many hops it will take. The number it lands on is the answer to the problem. She loved doing this! She did these problems with ease, too.

Since she did these so well, I quickly thought of another idea.

Algebra. Very, very, very basic algebra.

On the other side of the sheet, I wrote some more math problems. I told Babe that the first number was where the frog would start, and the very last number in the problem is where the fly would be. She had to count how many hops the frog took to get to the fly. She did this with ease too, but loved every minute of it.

She did these, plus her Calvert worksheets, and Math was done for the day. Nearly an hour! What a great feeling.

We then went into Reading Comprehension with a mix of Science, where I changed it up a bit and had her read "Spring is Here" by Taro Gomi. Cute pictures in this book, and it was a neat visual into the order of the seasons throughout the year.

We briefly discussed the appropriate clothes to wear in each, and then we talked about the colors of each season. With this, all the kids participated in a craft, where we pulled out different colors of tissue paper to resemble each season.

Z wasn't too into crafting today, but he managed to get a few colors onto his paper.

Bubs had a great time ripping up some of her colors and gluing them. But once Z was done, she was, too.

Babe surprised the heck out of me. I would have been completely content with a paper collage, but nope. She blew me away with her idea of actually cutting the paper into shapes of each season. She cut out the printed flowers for spring, the printed Christmas trees for winter, and cut out leaves for fall!

Too. Freaking. Cute.

We finished just in time for lunch, and I had a mess to clean up. The seasons of the year threw up all over the table!

After lunch, I handed Babe another book to read for her reading log. She read "Who Loves the Fall?" by Bob Raczka pretty well for all the new and random words that were in it!

(Insert picture I didn't take of reading log + book.)

After she read her second book of the day (!), I loaded Z and Bubs into the bike trailer, Babe got on her two-wheeler, I on my brother's, and we were off on a bike ride around the neighborhood to create a map.

We stopped at every driveway to draw a square for the house and which way the road went. When we went around her block, and as she drew the last line for the road to complete her specific area, I asked her what shape she made.

She gasped. It was so cute.

"Look! A block!!! Like we walk around the block!"

I think that was one of the coolest reactions to a realization she's had yet in her days of Kindergarten so far.

We stopped at each stop sign so she could write the name of the street down on the map.

Towards the end of the ride, I handed her the map and told her to point to where we were. She pointed to the exact point we were, and she said she knew because of how the streets crossed.

"We are standing next to the last street that goes in, so we are here."

Amazing.

This took nearly two hours! But she rode the whole way and didn't complain once. We both had so much fun. As for the other two...

When we got back to the house, we looked at her map and I had her count each house. 66! 66 houses in the neighborhood! I didn't even know that!

Sorry for the camera phone photo, but you can definitely tell where the roads are, and where the houses are. She did an amazing job.

"Next time we go bike riding, let's ride the whole neighborhood. Not just the block!"

So fun.

And that was the end of the day! Literally! It was just starting to become dusk by the time we got back to the house. A very, very, VERY productive day for the little Calvert Kindergartner.