Goings On

Lots have been going on here. Been cleaning, organizing, reorganizing, hanging out, sleeping in, getting ready for the new school year at a brand new school. Grace started 3rd grade and Nate started Kindergarten.

So far, the kids are liking it. Grace LOVES it actually, Nate is Nate and just says "yeah" to every question I ask. But, he doesn't say he hates it, so that's just as good as liking it in my book.

Here are some first day of school pics:

My big girl gets a locker this year!

Now Nate, as I previously mentioned on the blog, has become quite the little math whiz. He's been adding and subtracting and we've worked up to double digits. He's been able to do them in his head. I've never once pushed him to learn any of this, he has grown an interest in math all on his own. I suppose it started with Grace asking for math problems in the car. Then he asked. We started very simply- If I have 3 cookies and I eat 1 cookie, how many cookies do I have left. Then little by little they got harder. Now that he is doing double digit adding and subtracting, I figured maybe it was time to move onto multiplication. First, I thought I would teach him counting by 2's, 3's, 5's and 10's, so today I asked him if he could count by 2's.

He did. All the way to 100.

By 5's.

He did. All the way to 100.

10's.

You guessed it (although that's the easiest of the bunch).

3's.

Well, he did it, but I could tell he was adding 3 to the previous number. And after 48 he asked if we could stop, lol. 3's need work.

The other day, before I thought it would be a good idea to work on counting by 2's, 3's, 5's and 10's, I taught him the 0 times table and the 1 times table. I think he's got that down pat.

Today we did the 2 times table. So that's where we are at.

He may beat out Grace soon with multiplication. She's still working on learning all of them.

Well, that's all I have to report about for now.