Back to basics and a huge milestone!

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

After the irregularity of last week and yesterday, today we mostly stuck with the basics. We spent most of the day working through the 1st grade workbook, catching up on a couple of worksheets we didn't do last week and working on through more basic lessons on letters and numbers. I'm still attempting to impart counting by twos and even vs odd numbers. After much work, I think he finally got it, especially when Hypersteve reenforced it with an after dinner game of mancala.

After a late lunch we turned on the computer, after all, I did deem Tuesdays and Thursdays computer days. Otherwise Rocket Boy gets a bit too obsessed with it. We did math code breaking again - simple addition problems whose solutions correspond to letters to answer science questions. This time it was a fish theme. We followed it with time on the Museum of Natural History's kids' website, Ology. Going along with the fish theme, we stuck to the marine biology section and played all kinds of games and activities. It's fun to make a 6 year old with a missing tooth try to say "ichthyologist."

That's right, Rocket Boy lost his first tooth the other day! Of course he put it under his pillow and the tooth fairy did her job, but he wanted to know when we were going to have the party. Apparently, he thought that losing a tooth is cause for a party - friends coming over, cake, balloons, games, the works. I broke it to him gently. Of course he kept asking what would happen if he lost two teeth, or all his teeth. I guess he's still bucking for a party.

So what should I do with the tooth?