Yesterday she was adding Duplos and started to get there – she said, “I have three blocks and two and that’s five!” So she started by naming her units, but isn’t fully there yet. As for the units, I’m waiting to hear her verbally adding something and adding unit names to it. I’ll bring it up several more times over the course of the next few weeks, and judge when she’s ready for a more in-depth lesson based on her response. Doesn’t mean she’s fully ready to grasp the concept, but it’s been mentioned and is working in her brain. Remember that you’re never too early to start planting an idea, they just might not grasp the full concept for a while, and that’s ok!!įor example, she said the word strawberry sort of slowly yesterday, so I asked her how many parts she hears in that word, and did a teensy lesson on syllables right there while I was fixing her dinner. She’s just not ready yet for me to explain the concept and make sure that we are adding like units. Note that as I did it, I was already identifying the units verbally – so that she’ll start to get that idea. Then I would write the vertical math problem – Ok, so 5 flowers + 6 flowers equals 11 flowers.Obviously, a good practice of fine motor skills would be to have the child handle the glue, but Becca was frustrated with the glue bottle, and our focus wasn’t on fine motor, but on math, so I did the glue so that she wouldn’t loose her focus in her frustration. I did glue dots above each flower stem as she counted them and then she would add the pompom to the glue. Then we would count the second added and add them, counting up as we went (so the second set of 5, we started counting at 6, 7, 8, 9, 10).(If your kids are ready for this topic, you’d of course want both sets to have the same color so that you are adding LIKE objects.) You could mix your colors, but I liked Becca to use all the same color for the set so that she had the visual of them being alike – this will help when we get further down the road in math and start identifying the type of units we are adding. She would pick a color and count them out. Then we would count the first addend (the first set of flower stems).SO, let’s figure out how we’re going to make 10.
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