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This week I am saying So What If….
~I can’t wait till we start getting some summer thunderstorms here.
~I am more excited about visiting the Easter Bunny than the kids are I think.
~I think grocery store birthday cake has the best frosting.
~I haven’t picked any Bracket Challenge winners yet. I swear it’s happening today though. I swear!
~I am way too excited about the Birchbox +Rifle Paper Company collaboration in April.
~And also the Lily + Target collaboration.
~I am beyond nervous about the Michigan State game on Friday (which I thought was Thursday for some reason).
~I refuse to believe that Laguna Beach and The Hills were staged. No, they were REALITY! LOL.
~I am way too excited that I FINALLY got my favicon thing to work!
~I think Justin Bieber and Tyler from Teen Mom are secretly related. They look SO similar.
~Trying to think of ways to show your work for 1st grade math is super hard when both you and your 1st grader can do the problems in your head. It takes us longer to think if ways to show it than it does for him to do the problem. I can only wonder what we’ll do in 5th grade!
~I wouldn’t mind seeing Cinderella again.
Boomer Sooner!! 🙂
Cinderella was soooo good!! I keep trying to persuade my daughter to go see it with me again… I think I liked it more than her and she’s 8!
I am the same way with my 2nd grade son’s math! I’m telling you, we have come up with some very creative ways to show work for the easiest problems. Most days I just sit there and yell at the homework paper.
We spend more time drawing circles and shading them in than anyone ever should have to! I have no idea how else to do it!
One option you could do is draw a number-line and show humps to show the addition or subtraction. Often times kids like very procedural math, but have a hard time with the “concept” of it. It warms my heart knowing your trying to work with your child. If you really want to push him, have him come up with real life story problems. (and force him not to use the same example…my mom, my dog, etc.) Or, you can have him choose what story problem would fit or not fit. (ie. 8-3=5. My mom has 8 apples and 3 bananas would not fit that equation.) This will help him in the long run. So much of common core (like it or not, it is here for a while) is getting kids to talk and explain. Using words to describe math is not our nature, but will get him used to what is to come.
Wow. I did not understand that at all. How do the humps show the addition or subtraction? For 8-3=5 would there be humps at 8, 3 and 5? And how does that show 8-3=5? Maybe draw pictures of circles and cross them out for subtraction and for addition… coloring in circles is the only thing that could show addition… And how do the apples and bananas show that 8-3=5? OMG I went through 7 years of higher education and this seriously makes no sense LOL!!! I’ll bet becoming a Common Core tutor is a growing occupation though!
I feel your pain with the math. My older son can do complicated problems in his head so it was always an issue trying to get him to write it out on paper. Even my younger son gets annoyed with that.
I’m having that issue again where I can’t see the latest page or even the latest comments. I posted on 2 for Tuesday and did not see my comment. I came back hours later and still did not see it. I did once I hit refresh a few times.
I bet the comments and the page view is related. I am still playing around with the settings to both make the page speedy and to get the current page to show up. You’d think it’d be so easy. It’s so not!!!
And the math, AHHHHHHHHH. That makes me crazy.
Oh M can not help N with his homework. M does not think in commoncore logic and it just makes him mad. Ns teacher isn’t too bad so we do a lot of number lines and circles and then just cross things out. I’m sure they probably want a more elaborate scheme but as long as they can see you get the concept it seems to be ok.
I’m ready for this weekends games. I need to go and check how busted my bracket looks right now. LOL
I’m so jealous you and your little guy can do math in your head, I have dyscalculia (dyslexia for numbers) so it’s nearly impossible for me to do math in my head.
I can’t spell to save my life though!