We are getting school done in the midst of our organizing and baby prep. <g> Here are some highlights from the younger crowd:
Aidan learned to tie his shoes at the advanced age of 'just turned 7'. He has lived in a velcro world up til now. We sat at the table for several minutes last week and he figured it right out. Boy was he happy! He was overheard saying this while tying, "MAN I am GOOD!" "I have GOT to teach Kieran to do this!!"
His other feat was mastering the Roman numeral combos for X, V and I. We printed them off from here. Here are some worksheets to practice on. I told him it would be considerate to struggle just a big so I could justify having printed and cut lol!The boy has a photographic memory like his second oldest brother.
Kieran has been playing the bank game with the base ten blocks and the place value cards.(they are at the bottom of the linked page) He can form numbers through thousands now. We just began adding these larger numbers without exchanging. You can see he too is rather pleased with himself. We started with these when he told me he could count to 100 and could read those numbers. Actually I am not quite sure how exactly he learned to do that but I am not questioning a good thing!
Otherwise he is busy writing letters and telling everyone how many of each they have in their names. He and I both have one 'K' and one 'I' each I am told.
Brendan's new trick is to crouch over and wiggle his fingers under his face which is our cue to say something along the lines of "oooooooh scary!" He then squeals with satisfaction and runs off. That isn't Montessori fwiw, just darn cute. ; D
I LOVE your Montessori moments!! I'm going to get Seamus started with the bank game, would you mind emailing me with a quick way to start it??? I'd love it as he is a total numbers guy!! And what a cutie that little guy of yours is, he and Sean-Paul are two peas in a pod! :)
Posted by: Meredith | November 11, 2006 at 12:24 AM