Bigger Hearts for His Glory:
We have come to fractions in math, and I am oh so thankful for Carrie's hands-on math activities! They are really helping Emmett visualize parts of a whole, and how 1/3 can be less than 1/2, even though 2 is usually less than 3. Not an easy concept!
We've had fun with the activities that are planned, and it has been a good way to introduce this tough concept! Having been through all of Singapore's Primary Mathematics from K to 6B several times now with my older two dc, I know that it is such an amazing math program that it is worth the 'bumps' in the road when In introduce a concept that seems too hard. They get it - eventually - and then they REALLY get it! Like the 'why' rather than just the 'how.' It creates strong math students! That is the goal, right?
Another diverse activity chock full of lots of difficult skills is the vocabulary activity that Emmett does once each week. For the last 1/3 of BHFHG, I have the dc complete 3 vocabulary cards, though we have the choice of 1-3 cards in the plans. I like to increase the level of this skill gradually, so they are ready for the 3-5 vocabulary cards in PHFHG. I know from years of having given standardized tests, these skills are REALLY important! It is exciting to see how Emmett has grown into this activity! I can see he will be ready for the planned increased rigor of this skill in the next guide, PHFHG.
A story we thoroughly enjoyed reading in history was about Kit Carson. He was a renowned hunter, and he knew how to survive in a very wild country. When chased by 2 wild, hungry, and angry bears, he climbed a tree, and fended off the bears by cutting off a limb of the tree to knock them on their tender noses. This saved his life! Emmett liked making his bear masking and wearing it to scare the rest of our family!
Emmett is enjoying learning about our 50 states, their locations, their abbreviations, and who was for the North/South in the Civil War. He also mapped the 3 different routes to rush to find gold. He randomly practiced his freelance cursive in his mapmaking activity too!
In Christ,
Julie