We Played:
- Telepathy several times. (Deductive Logic, Strategic Thinking)
- 20 Days Around the World several times. (Geography, Strategic Thinking)
- North American Wildlife Memory Game -- My awesome father gave this to us many years ago, and we have gotten a LOT of mileage out of it. I was so disappointed when I couldn't find any more games made by this company. I'd hoped there was one for every continent. :-) (Biology; Visual Memory)
She Read:
- Usborne Pocket Nature (Biology)
- I Didn't Know That Some Bugs Glow in the Dark and Other Amazing Facts About Insects -- which her Granddad sent her this weekend. (Biology)
Also:
We practiced multi-digit multiplication and "long" division with base 10 blocks.
We tried a different method of multi-digit multiplication, suggested by Alena, using the distributive property:
This seemed to work better for Fox Lover than other methods we've tried.
We experimented with various division techniques.
Here we were dividing by 6, so we chose 6 ten-rods. Next we used red blocks (negative numbers) to subtract 6, creating 54. Then we divided the ten-rods and red blocks by 6, getting the answer (9):
(Computation; Number Sense)
And: Soccer ... of course. (Physical Education)
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