• Jul. 10, 2007 - Working with the cuisenaire rods and pattern blocks
Working with the cuisenaire rods and pattern blocks is so much fun. We had been using a little set just like blocks but I got a set of larger rods and a book about how to use them and it has really enriched our "play" with them. Last night Monkeyman was working with the pattern blocks and he made (caution, slight incorrectness coming...) an indian on a snowboard. He even had a little rhomboid feather sticking up. I think he got the idea from a copy of National Geographic I have floating around in the car. He has been "reading" it when we go for drives.
We have been doing pretty well working on Math, getting him motivated to work on reading is tougher. Sometimes I can kind of trick him into it when we are reading storybooks.
We also played a geography game yesterday called Take-off. It is a little advanced for him but he still had fun matching the flags on the map to the flags on the cards and flying his little jets across the map.
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The Well-Trained Mind by Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer
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