We officially have a 6th grader, a 5th grader, a 1st/2nd grader and a preschooler in our house. That means four different abilities, four different learning styles and four different personalities. Zion is just getting to the stage where she wants to "work" like her older sisters. I've made sure to provide lots of things that she can work on independently. This way, she can keep busy while I give lessons to her older sisters. She has been working with Cuisenaire rods for a while now. She loves just playing with them and building towers. She know that they represent certain numbers, but for the most part, she just enjoys playing with them. For the past few days, we have been working on making numbers with the rods. I write a couple of number on a piece of paper and she makes them. We have been working on the teens. She uses the pink ten rod and then adds the ones to make her number. Once she had made all of the numbers with tens and ones, we replace the ones with the rod with the matching value (four ones cubes for a four rod, six cubes for a six rod, etc.). She really enjoyed measuring the various rods with the little one cubes.
She also has been exploring tangrams. Mainly, she has been making her own shapes and creations, but today she discovered that she can use to book and copy the shapes in the book. This kept her busy for a good 30 minutes once she figured it out. We have several sets of tangrams, so of course she had to make each puzzle with every color that we had.
And, apparently, pants are frowned upon in our house...
I know that she is only 4 years old, but this all sounds very complicated to her 60+ granny. Go Zion!! Maybe you can teach some of this and I can learn along with you.
ReplyDeleteShe memorized how to make this shape and she makes it over and over again without the book, lol.
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