She Recently Drew These Fox Kits:
How awesome is that? (Art)
We Played:
- Art Memo -- We identified most of the works of art, by title and artist, as we went along. When setting up the game, we talked about factoring (how many ways can you makes rows and columns out of 72 cards?) (Visual Memory; Art Appreciation; Math: Patterns & Algebra)
- Telepathy (Deductive Logic, Strategic Thinking)
- Prime Pak -- This game was originally recommended by my friend Jo as a way to prepare for algebra. It reinforces the multiplication facts, factoring, and prime numbers. We also talked about the associative and commutative properties, since this game provided a natural opportunity to do so, and we talked about the difference between factoring and prime factoring. We also reviewed square and cubic numbers. (Math: Patterns & Algebra; Computation)
- 10 Days in the USA (Geography, Strategic Thinking)
- Mancala (Strategic Thinking)
- Double Shutter -- During game play, this reinforces basic addition (sums of up to 12) and mental math techniques (quickly choosing numbers with sums of 10). When adding up points and scores, it also reinforces addition of many numbers and multi-digit addition (with or without regrouping). Fox Lover has become proficient at doing all these things mentally, grouping numbers into sums of 10 to add many numbers quickly and efficiently. (Math: Number Sense; Computation; Strategic Thinking)
- Impressionist Art Game -- We also read pages 50-57 of the accompanying book; we read about Renoir. I love Sister Wendy's art books. (Art Appreciation)
This is Fox Lover's favorite Renoir painting:
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| Two Young Girls At the Piano |
We Read:
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