Hello Home Edders!
Let us share to you our simple math exercises today with Little Miss, inspired by sunflower seeds!
If it is not arts, I am actually having a challenge making this girl sit down for worksheets and reading. She learns her math mostly through play - - she counted her first hundred using a BINGO board, while she learned 1 digit addition through her siblings.
They use math questions to unlock favors from each other or to use the other's toys for example.
We love snacking on sunflower seeds. Apart from being nutrients-packed, it is also a great "bonding time" with the kids - imagine the time spent cracking the seeds one by one. LOL.
So while Little Monster is busy cracking the seeds, I thought of asking Little Miss to sit with us. I asked her, "How much do you think is 100?"
You know, making any activity, an intentional learning opportunity.
We grouped the sunflower seeds into tens. In each ten, she counted the seeds by two's. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10... (see our cover photo).
Ten times.
Until we had 100 seeds in front of us, grouped in tens, and each ten, in two's.
Now, time to count by 10's -- 10, 20, 30, 40, 50... 100! We also did skip counting by 5's - easy to memorize and important in time telling.
She first learned skip counting by 10's through another game we played using rubber bands. This activity is just a reinforcement, as well as helping her visualize how much 100 really is.
"Mommy, do you know that this also has 100 beads?" she came to me with our abacus.
Oh yeah, that has 100 beads!
A little later, she started eating the sunflower seeds.
So this time, we are learning subtraction. You see Little Miss, each time you eat a piece our sunflower seeds get lesser.
Eat some, add some! We kept on taking away and adding seeds to our set of 100...
Until of course, it started to bore her already.
End of Math activity.
It was also visualization time. Kuya somehow is having a hard time with measurements, metric system in particular. Why?? It's only the power of tens!
So to make him better understand smaller unit and bigger unit of measurements, we weighed sugar - in grams, and kilograms.
He said he now understood better. I hope so...
It's a cracking activity. Let's improve fine motor skills here. LOL. Of course, not to mention helping Mommy clean all the crumbs up when we were done.
Great job, Little Monster!
It's a tough job, homeschooling three kids. I still feel like pulling my hair out some times, but I learned over the years to just keep it cool and let the kids learn at their own pace.
What matter most are their characters, and how they will apply their learnings in real life situations. The world is a big classroom. The difference though, is it tests us first, then gives us the lesson. Our kids need to be equipped for this.
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