Math

It has been almost one year since a family post, and in light of that, I (Angie) will try my hat at this whole "blogging" thing. I have been waiting to post about something deep and meaningful, however, anything of great significance has eluded me. Instead I will write about our bedtime ritual. Our routine is fixed, filled with the usual stories, teeth brushing and prayers, however, we have turned a new corner and included a new piece to the bedtime puzzle: math.

Somehow in the transition to Kindergarten, Ella has become addicted to math. All the time, she is counting to 100 by 1's, 5's and 10's...first in English, then in Spanish - in the car, at the dinner table, in the park, and now, in bed. In her room, she has a little scene on her wall of a doll house including some flowers, clouds and trees. She thought this would be a perfect way to do math in bed. The problems began small...adding the flowers to the trees, the windows to the doors, etc. However, she grew tired of the same questions, so we have moved away from the cute dollhouses scene, and into some higher numbers (yes, still addition and subtraction, but by that time in the day I really don't want to think about the answer to 83+17). But that was still not enough. I am now making up word problems about turkeys and Christmas, and have just thrown in money. Maybe we'll move onto fractions next...all I know is that by 1st grade, she will have outsmarted both of us!