The topic of counting by 5s has come up recently for Robin in Saxon Math K. This has been quite challenging for him. He needs a lot of repetition to learn things like this. At the same time he has excellent pattern recognition skills. We're supposed to use nickels, but it was just confusing him terribly. So I got out the hundred number chart and showed him how to put a nickel on each multiple of 5. He understood how to do that immediately, and once he got that he had no problem figuring out how many nickels it takes, for example, to make 35 cents.
I read to Robin and he read to me.
Including a bi-lingual retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk.
And a book about a boy who assisted the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk.
Robin jumped on a trampoline, walked, biked, played kick-ball, used a batting cage, and played miniature golf (Happy Birthday, Patrick!)
We read a book about rainforests and one about animals fighting.
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