Sixth Month. 2nd Week. Third Day.

Today we went back to the regular school schedule after having two "weird" days fully of holiday festivities and illness.

Math was something completely new and Babe had a lot of fun with this. Last week I introduced her to the quarter because of George Washington, and this week is all about Abraham Lincoln, so she worked with the penny in Math. She remembered that 100 cents are in one dollar, so I asked her to count out 100 cents in pennies.

She did! She put them in rows of ten and then counted by ten to 100. Amazing.

I then had her put a dollar in quarters on the table, and then I had her go get a one dollar bill. So with three different dollars on the table, I asked her which dollar she'd rather carry to the store.

"The dollar. It's just paper!"

So just to extend the lesson a little bit, I had her try to stuff her one hundred pennies into her pockets.

She totally did! And they all fit, too! But then I had her "shop" for something and then hand it to me, and pay me. It took her about five minutes to take all the pennies out of her pocket. Then I had her do it again, but this time with a one dollar bill. She was out of the "store" in no time at all!

"Yeah, the dollar!"

haha

While Babe was counting her monies, Bubs was working on her bin work, matching numerals to quantity with broken heart shapes. She liked this a lot.

After Babe's Math and Bubs' work time was over, we did a candy heart math activity. For Bubs and Z, I separated a sheet of paper into five boxes and wrote the number 1-5 in each box. I then had them glue that many candy hearts in the corresponding boxes. Bubs had no problem with this and Z did a great job with a little help. He was able to do 1 and 2 by himself, so I helped with the rest, adding only glue dots for him to put candy hearts on. Then he counted to five!

For Babe's version of the activity, I also split her sheet into five rows, but only added the plus sign and equals sign, to make blank number sentences. I gave her a handful of candy hearts and told her to make her own addition number sentences with them. And you know what? She did. All by herself. I told her I couldn't believe she did it all by herself! Her face lit up. I was really proud of her for doing it all on her own. Amazing.

After our huge Math lesson, Babe blew through her worksheet on "All to Build a Snowman", which we (Calvert) have been reviewing for weeks it seems...haha.

But after that work, it was play/lunch time.

After lunch, Babe was introduced to our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln. We read his page in "I Grew Up to be President", where she learned about how he freed the "brown people" from the "peach people", and how he was killed by someone who liked having slaves.

It was a very basic lesson, but I brought out the US map again and showed her the North and the South, and how it was the South who liked having slaves. When I told her that the North won the Civil War, she was so happy.

"Ohhh yay North! That means all the brown kids can go play with the white kids! Like that 'I Have a Dream' guy said!"

Ha! Wow! So her timing is a little off. Whatever. I did tell her that Abraham Lincoln was president about 100 years before MLK made that speech. Obviously that timing is a little hard for a six-year-old to understand.

We kept reading about Lincoln and I told her about his log cabin in Kentucky and how when I was younger, I went and saw it! I grabbed the iPad and showed her pictures of it, then I told her she was going to build a log cabin!

"To live in?"

ha. Not quite. I brought out the bag of pretzels and she got really excited. She spent the next 30 minutes using peanut butter as mortar to build the perfect log cabin.

She was pretty proud of her masterpiece. I put it in the freezer for the mortar to set, and after her Checkpoints, I had her take a little cat nap to try to kick this cold she's got.

Tomorrow continues our discussion on Abraham Lincoln!