Math: Number Review

This week we have been doing some review. As we have just recently jumped into Singapore 2A, which begins to climb toward the number 1000, there is good reason to continue solidifying addition and subtraction within 100. 

I decided to bring out some previous math games we have enjoyed together...

Using counters to figure out number sentences in the Dinosaur Subtraction Game from teachers pay teachers.

The little one also wanted to have fun with our counting stones...

Another day we played the Gold Mine Game. It's good practice with subtraction within the number 20. Here is a video explaining the basics:

Artist Study: Renoir

Artist study is easy. And wonderfully educational. How can so much culture be soaked up with so little time dedicated to it? 10-15 minutes a week. Now that is amazing.

And Cutlet loves art. Art is his favorite subject. I want to encourage that excitement, so when he asks to copy a work of art, I indulge him. 

Here he is working on The Clown, a portrait of Renoir's son Claude.

Fall Nature Study

As I have been out of the practice of writing for quite some time, this will be a very short-winded post.

Of late, I find myself with all sorts of thoughts running through my head, but am unable to express them adequately; however, I do wish to try (again) at recording a few thoughts and happenings of our homeschool life on these pages.

For now I hope posting a few pictures will sufficiently express where my words fail me.

And where better to start than Nature Study?

some lichen with tiny inhabitants at the base of an elm tree

moth in our porch

a slug! can you see it? we thought it was a snail looking for a shell until I read that snails are born with shells and slugs are not. The Handbook of Nature Study is a wealth of information.

some amazingly beautiful mushrooms in our yard. and huge! how do we miss these things growing?!?

sketching the mushrooms