KD is beginning to homeschool now

KD's numbers

3 year old KD is counting everything, anything at all, including completely imaginary things. This is a shot of a piece of paper she wrote over as she counted to a 100. Hope you can see how she was writing in lines.

Auto-homeschooling is awesome.

KD in tutu

We have been printing a number chart for her to count with. She will, completely on her own, point to each number and say it out loud.

Counting table

find it here

As with most kids this age, she does it intensely, constantly, and completely. She will not stop counting until she hits her target (often 100).

Some of the things she counts are:

things she is eating
snow flakes
crayons
pens
coins
bits of playdo

She has to say a number if she sees it printed somewhere. That often gets her started again.

She is really getting place values. When she sees the number “35″ she doesn’t say “three”, “five”, she says “thirty five.”

KD's numbers

The ONLY drawback with this is when it comes time for time-outs. We do them where the child has to count out loud.. this is now no longer the trial is was before!

Baby O continues his crazy self. He is getting better at being up on his tummy and doing pre-crawl stuff.

Here he is this last Easter.

Baby Oh curious but cautious

Easter Morning 2007

Q is taking a break from EPGY this trimester (most of the kids in her class are). We recently did some photo-safari in Boston’s Chinatown.

Will post that at another time.

Here she is at Easter.

Q dying eggs

Easter Morning 2007

Here is KD on Easter too.

Easter Morning 2007