Schooly update
Since I was on the couch for the week, Zach took over the homeschooling stuff. Zane finally seems to be seeking out learning again, after the disaster that was K12 Virtual Academy. It took a few months of de-schooling and a lot of patience on my part not to push, but we seem to be back on track.
Zach and Zane decided it would be fun to do some math, so they pulled out the Miquon books and did a bunch of stuff on “time”. They had a ball drawing different shaped clocks, square, triangle, amoeba (and a “no boundaries” clock) and drawing the hands as appropriate.
Then they talked about using the time to describe placement, like on a dinner plate, like this:
Zach drew a big clock on the chalkboard and wrote the problem on the board (Zane loves working on the chalkboard). After he wrote out the problem, he had Zane draw it. Mr. Literal Boy drew the contents on the plate in lines, in the shape of the clock arms.
In other weirdness, Zach reviewed addition and subtraction concepts in a way only a guy would think of. He drew people in a house, had people outside and did different word problems. Many of the problems involved things like “if 3 people are struck by lightening, and 4 people run into the house, how many are left outside”. There were also story lines about a “pit”, people falling into the pit, the smart people who built a bridge, the boulders that came down the hill running over people. I could hear them laughing and giggling like crazy from upstairs and was amused to find out why.