My six-year-old found out a few days ago that the upstairs neighbors have the
DVD of "Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang", and all the children have been asking me to
let them borrow it, and I kept saying "maybe..." This morning Lukas bounced into
my room and the first thing he asked was when he could borrow
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang. In exasperation, I said, "When you've finished your
math book!" In less than five minutes, no joke, he had completed the last six
pages of his math book, gotten dressed, and was out the door. So we watched a
movie today. We'd all seen it before, but my husband and I especially enjoyed
all the extra bits that DVD's have--interview with Dick Van Dyke, how the movie
was made, etc.
Then this evening Lukas was bored and asked me what he should do, so I
suggested starting his new math book. He got very excited--and did the first six
lessons.
Since I date the children's written work (although I do usually eventually
throw away workbooks), I could look back and see exactly how long it took Lukas
to complete Earlybird Mathematics 2B: just over four months. However, I also
counted how many DAYS he actually did something: only 20. We haven't exactly
been consistant about math with him! Now that he's in Primary Mathematics
1A, maybe I'll do better at remembering that he's "officially" a first-grader.
:-)
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