School for his birthday!

E loves doing schoolwork, so skipping it on his 5th birthday (Sep 3rd) was out of the question! This time, T also joined us for class. 

He really seems to love the RightStart math curriculum, so we started with that again. We reviewed Yellow is the Sun and showing numbers 0-9 on the abacus 

We also reviewed first, second, and third.

In this lesson, we learned about parallel lines and planes, and he went around the room and identified parallel lines in our space.

"These are parallel."

"These are not parallel." We have not learned about perpendicular yet.

We also learned that things with three sides are triangles, and things with four sides are quadrilaterals. We learned that "quad" means four. Interestingly, T had an easier time understanding how to physically make the shapes on the geoboards, but E had an easier time grasping the concept. It's fascinating to watch two different children learn side-by-side!

Next, we reiterated the concept of "10 is 5 and 5". When I asked both of them why 10 is special, E knew the exact answer - because it's five and five! This was definitely another moment that showed the difference in a child that's ready for this information, and a child who isn't there yet. Fascinating!

First, we showed the concept with tally sticks. 

Then we showed it with colored tiles.

And lastly, we showed it on the abacus. 

E is practicing the quadrangles. He had a difficult time making shapes other than squares, so we had a lot of practice. 

We realized we were ahead in our plan for handwriting, so we just skipped on to our unit study. This lesson was about the Earth and the Moon. E did a great job reading about the Earth and learning about what colors we can see when the Earth is viewed from space. we also read about the moon, and he drew a full moon, a crescent moon, and a moon completely in the shadow. We learned that the shape of the moon depends on where the Earth and Sun are in relation to it.