Week 7
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There's only a few days left until we've finished 60 days of pretty intense nearly daily "homework" sessions with K. We'll see if she lets me "quit" after these 60 days, she *loves* her one on one homework time. We've made a LOT of math progress this week, so I really want to focus on how we've revamped our math. As I've mentioned, we use a math kit, "Numicon" which we had ordered online. It's a math curriculum designed for children who need a more visual way of learning math, and has been proven an effective way to teach kids with special needs. This gives you a good idea of what it looks like. Each shape represents a number, and kids learn to associate an image with each number. So if you imagine a muffin tin with six muffin spots, that is the shape that is represented by six (two rows of three each, same as on a dice) In this picture you can see the number 3 (which is yellow) 4 (green) 5 (which is red) and 6 (is...