Day 3 - Eating Math

On day 3 we started the morning singing the Sing, Spell, Read, and Write phonics song. H was a little bored with it, but A was catching on well. Little E thought it was fun. I printed more letter work sheets from www.startfall.com (we have covered A and B so far) for A to color, and H and I took turns reading pages about the Titanic in her Magic Tree House book. I was also able to help her with blending sounds in words. Reading and history covered! I am putting a strong emphasis on reading more than anything else with H. Just before leaving 2nd grade in public school, she was selected to be in the gifted program for math, but her reading was average at best. I assigned her to write her spelling and vocabulary words 1x each and then we started on math: fractions with cooking. On the inside of a file folder I drew pictures of measuring cups and divided them into quarters and eighths. I drew a different cup for each measurement with in a cup: ¼, ½, ¾, 1. We quadrupled the recipe of muffins and I had her figure out the ingredients multiplied by 4. She did very well and I was able to use up some very ripe bananas. Waste not, want not.