tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78376746716124165842024-03-14T13:58:14.420-04:00The Joys of Montessori HomeschoolingOur Lady of Good Counselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13576516245055282380noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7837674671612416584.post-17893142405567062832020-04-13T14:24:00.001-04:002020-04-13T14:24:12.637-04:00Global Cuisine - Easter from around the world<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Easter dinner was very different this year. Although we weren't able to follow the traditions that we normally celebrate, we still made the best of our situation and enjoyed our time at home as a family. Although it was very tough to not be able to go to Mass and receive the Eucharist. </div>
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We couldn't find much in the likes of international food dishes for Easter. The majority was either dessert or bread. So, we asked the kids what they wanted and we had a smorgasbord. I took pictures of the truly global dishes. Some of the other dishes we had was roasted carrots, sweet potato casserole, green salad, and Kenyan cabbage (that counts as normal)!</div>
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Babka bread is traditionally a Polish Jewish bread. The word "babka" comes from the Slavic word babcia, which means grandmother. It is believed that it was named after grandmothers because they are known for making lots of goodies and desserts. This bread actually turned out beautifully! It was quite the challenge to figure out how to make the shape, but it was fun to make. It tastes like a cinnamon roll. </div>
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This was a request from the kids. We gave up meat for Lent so they were very excited to have an empanada filled with delicious meat. The coleslaw goes great with it and has a nice fresh flavor with the mango that is added.</div>
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Apparently we have a Jamaican theme going on! This was actually given to us from a parishioner from our church who happens to be Jamaican. She blessed our kids with this huge hunk of meat. We surprised them with it. Actually, Belle, our youngest, probably crushed the most out of all the kids. She loved it!</div>
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Ok.....so Bubs and I made these on Saturday. They looked fancy on the recipe and I was hopeful that they would be delicious, but apparently cardamom is extremely potent. We used our mortal and pestle to crush up the cardamom pods and then used our spice grinder to make them into a powder. Cardamom went into the dough and also into the almond paste for the filling. The dough wasn't quite right either so they proved to be a bit challenging during the assembly process.</div>
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Here is a picture of the semla cut in half. You can sort of see the almond paste filling. The whipped cream got smooshed, but the kids still enjoyed them. I have to say that I tried a small piece and the cardamom was a bit powerful. However, Bubs said that its a dessert and how can a dessert be bad!!</div>
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Stay tuned for our next country. Belle gets to choose this one, so you never know! The good thing is that we can have meat now. </div>
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I hope everyone has a blessed Easter season! We are anxiously awaiting baby #7 to arrive in the next week or so.</div>
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Our Lady of Good Counselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13576516245055282380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7837674671612416584.post-88683756425925750172020-04-05T22:15:00.002-04:002020-04-05T22:15:17.120-04:00Global Cuisine - China<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ok.....so I truly hope not to offend anyone, but I attempted to write "Chinese Menu" in Chinese. I think it looks pretty good, but I also think my Swahili is pretty good when we go to Kenya and my husband's relatives either laugh or just smile (knowing that I sound like a redneck from Oklahoma)! DJ stayed busy today and didn't get all of his dishes done. He had an eggplant and sesame noodle dish that we will probably just have later in the week. I keep telling him to whittle down his menu, but I guess all of the food looks so good he can't choose wisely! That being said, this is our last Sunday meal without meat!!! Hooray, next week is Easter and Lent is over. </div>
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Bubs wanted to get in on the action of the "fun to operate" kitchen gadgets before Mass. I have to admit that I secretly didn't want him to help because I love turning that crank and watching those beautiful zucchini noodles come out of the other end too! Ha We helped DJ out while he was away in the morning.</div>
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This picture is a bit hard to tell, but this is essentially a wonton wrapper stuffed with goodness and drizzled with Kung Pao sauce. There was a lot of kung pao going on in the kitchen today! Mumbs, who is usually pretty picky, ate about 5 of these.</div>
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Ooohhhh a man after my own heart. Mama's favorite. This was Belle's favorite too. I think she ate three bowls worth. What is a Chinese meal without it?!</div>
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Zucchini noodle lo mein</div>
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Many, or shall I dare to say all, of the kids highly dislike mushrooms. This dish had quite a bit, but the kids were told they had to eat three each. The backstory of this is that since everyone has been quarantined and DJ has been working from home, there has been a daily basketball game. DJ vs. the kids. There is a daily bet and today the kids bet on mushrooms (because they saw them in the fridge). Unfortunately, DJ crushed them today 15-0. They have actually never lost so bad since they started playing! To top it off, they only have to make 5 shots to win and he has to make 15, solo.</div>
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These lentils definitely had a kick to them, but were quite tasty. He added roasted, salted cashews which brought an unexpected crunch element. The cauliflower was sticky, but sweet and combined nicely with the lentils.</div>
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So, for anyone who has any culinary skills whatsoever, you are probably cracking up right now. We tried so hard for this presentation it ended up looking like we just threw a bunch of chocolate on the plate. We couldn't get it to drizzle any way we tried so this is what you get. Globs of chocolate! On the bright side, the banana fritters were good. I wasn't sure how they would taste, but the crunchy outside went well with the soft sweet inside. As for the New Year's Cake, let's just say it was keto friendly. He used rice flour and added almonds to give it a bit more flavor. Overall, they both paired nicely with our tea tonight.</div>
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Let's just say that school has been quite interesting these days with the recent quarantine over the coronavirus. DJ has been working from home (or shall I say the kitchen table) and it is a bit distracting at times. He takes calls there and also has his zoom video calls. It wouldn't be so bad if we were in the classroom, but this teacher is 9 months pregnant and over climbing up down those stairs for school. I park it in my chair at the table and we have been making do. It's that time of year when the weather is warming up and we all want to be outside anyway! Here are a few things we've been up to lately.</div>
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Mumbs was shown the spindle rods today (even though she doesn't know all of her numbers.) I just couldn't resist her when she brought it up from the classroom. She did really well and is actually capable of working with it. Ideally, the child has mastered the red rods, number rods and cards, and the number sandpaper letters. However, following the child usually takes priority!</div>
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Bubs worked with fractions. He was struggling with the concept of adding fractions with unlike denominators. He persevered though and ended up doing 10 equations by himself.</div>
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Ok, I'm not sure if this painting is Mumbs or Belle's or actually a combination. All I know is that I was on a phone call and then I got word from an older child that they were painting in the classroom by themselves and there was paint on the floor, all over the easel, and on themselves! #wherewastheteacher</div>
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Nito worked on the sensorial decanomial.</div>
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T-Man working on the small bead frame. He was shown dynamic subtraction and has taken off with it. I tend to underestimate his capability. He is still little T-Man to me.</div>
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Mumbs has been very interested in the sandpaper letters so I am trying to not lose this sensitive period without taking full advantage of it. I neglected T-Man during this phase and he is not quite where I would like him to be with his reading. Hopefully, I can keep it up after the baby comes and with summer approaching. </div>
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Nito and T-Man love the new clock I got. Ok, it's a bit huge and obnoxious, but it has some cool features. The dial can be turned and the small circles will change to roman numerals, a 24 hr clock, or it will have words like "half past". </div>
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Ok so then this happened! Our daily walk while we prayed the rosary. Although I give DJ a hard time sometimes, it has been such a blessing to have him at home during his busy season as a tax accountant. He is home for all of our meals and we sneak in extra daddy time when he isn't on a call. Mumbs loves pushing Belle in the stroller. </div>
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The kids are on a home school cross country team through our church, but practice has been cancelled for the spring season. I decided to take matters into my own hands and try to recreate some of the things they do in their spring conditioning practices. We happened to have two random tires from the van and some logs from when we lost branches from our tree. I created different obstacle courses with cones, balls, a soccer goal, wheelbarrow, etc and then timed each of them to make it competitive. You would be surprised how hard it is to push a tire!</div>
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Kui working hard to not let her younger brothers beat her. She beat Bubs by 6 seconds!</div>
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Nito jumping through tires and over logs. He then had to go kick a ball in the soccer goal and push the wheelbarrow around the blue spruce tree.</div>
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In the end, all of the children, even Belle, were doing the obstacle course in their own way. It was a lot of fun to watch and those boys really need to get their daily dose of jumping and climbing out of their system. </div>
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We will probably take Holy Week off or we may persevere since school will essentially be over for the year once the baby comes in a few weeks. I will continue to post about our weekly Sunday dinners as I can. China is tomorrow. Very fitting for our current lockdown situation. Mumbs picked the country this week. Stay tuned!</div>
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So, Ecuador ended up being a family affair. A few kiddos helped out in the prep and I was in the kitchen with DJ most of the day. It was actually nice to be in there with him, but I told him that if the weather was warmer, I would have bailed on him! I also secretly wanted to eat at a decent time and get ahead of the mountain of dishes that are always staring at me at the end of the night.</div>
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Here is Belle rolling out the dough to make the sweet rolls. However, when I wasn't looking, half of the dough was missing and she was eating it! #whereweretheparents</div>
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Kui and Belle helped shuck the corn.</div>
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Kui was in charge of flipping the corn on the grill.</div>
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Here is the menu. Wow, my handwriting looks a bit terrible and slanted. I decided to use the markerboard side of the easel this time. We also found the flag downstairs. The kids ended up spending too much time outside and didn't dress up or prepare any song/play.</div>
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This is traditionally supposed to be split pea and green banana soup, but DJ couldn't find split peas. He used black eyed peas instead with the green bananas. I have to admit that this soup doesn't look very appetizing, but it is a very hearty soup, especially good for our meatless Lenten dinners.</div>
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I ended up helping my boo with these sweet rolls. Don't mind the crazy distorted shapes. They went a little crazy in the oven. These were scrumptious. After they came out of the oven, I slathered them in melted butter and sprinkled them with sugar! I was pleasantly surprised that I didn't have to double the recipe. It made 30 rolls! Enough to feed our large family.</div>
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This Ecuadorian salad was a little iffy for me at first. It called for avocados. I wasn't sure how those would do with the tomato and onions. I was pleasantly surprised by how tasty it was and it paired great with the potato cakes (Llapingachos) that are seen in the picture below.</div>
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This picture has a few things, but I spoke about the top two above. The grilled corn was absolutely delicious. It was a special treat to have grilled corn so early in the year. DJ made this delicious sauce for it that had garlic, cilantro, and sour cream I think. Either way, I could have eaten 3 ears of corn, pregnant or not!</div>
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Ok. So these are empanadas made out of green plantain dough stuffed with cheese. OMG! I'm not sure what this man of mine was thinking, but these were an absolute disaster. He was putting raw hunks of plantain into the food processor mixed with grated plantains. The food processor didn't know what the heck was going on and just started making this horrible noise, stinking up the joint, and I'm sure if you looked hard enough, you could have seen smoke coming from the motor! Disaster, disaster, disaster! He added water and oil I think to make it into a mush he called dough. Then he bailed on it and gave it over to me to try and salvage it. I added almost 3 cups of flour to make it into something I could work with and then spent another 30 minutes picking out hunks of raw plantains. I mean how can you roll out your dough with huge hunks. Anyway....I was polite about the matter and just did my best. I managed to be able to roll them out a bit, stuff them with beans, cheese, and green onions, and fry them. We had to improvise and pour some of the sauce from the corn on them because they had an indescribable flavor. Yikes!</div>
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Ahhh.....dessert. DJ decided to make two for this country. He said that's how much he loves me. Ha! I made the cake below and he made these. P. U. R. E. sugar is all I have to say. These were delicious straight from the oven. They tasted like cotton candy. They hardened a bit and became a little less chewy the next day, but equally delicious.</div>
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So, don't laugh at this picture. DJ said that we need to spiffy up our pictures so he told me to take it next to the flowers (as if I'm going to become some professional food blogger or something!) Anyway, at least you can see the cake. It was very interesting to make. I wasn't sure what to think when I poured my milk mixture over the cake and it started to float in the casserole dish! After quite a few hours, I was pleasantly surprised to see that all of the milk had soaked into the cake leaving it very spongy. I toasted some coconut to go on top of the delicious whipped icing.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Portugal!</span></div>
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The kids were excited that we were doing Portugal because the Fatima children are from there. This picture has Our Lady of Fatima and the three children: Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta. Hopefully one day, we will be able to visit the city of Fatima. Until then, let us experience Portugal through the hands of DJ!</div>
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Ok, so I apologize for the pretty lame pictures since I don't show my kids faces. The girls ended up looking more Jamaican than Portuguese, so I just included a few boys! Nito has really been playing his guitar more and wanted to include it. Since we had dinner guests, their song, "Palma, palma, palma" was forgotten! It was a repeat from when we did Brazil anyway. Perhaps, if they ever end up doing a song, I will record it and post it to the blog.</div>
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Here is our menu for this week. I have to say that my hubby is quite ambitious every week. I wouldn't dream of cooking so many things, but I cook almost everyday so that could be why. However, it is smart in the sense that I never have to cook on Mondays since we usually have leftovers, even after feeding our army of children. </div>
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My husband knows that I'm a carboholic and always makes a point to get some sort of bread into the menu. This is a Portuguese sweet bread. They came out nicely, but I found them a bit dry. Although, that can easily be resolved with a little butter! </div>
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I believe this was the most popular dish and there were very little leftovers. This is salted cod that is baked and mixed with fried onions, potatoes, and other goodness. We had some friends over for dinner and one of them gave it away that this was fish. I actually would have tried it on my own thinking it was gooey potatoes. Now, I have to admit, I was eventually FORCED to try this. I fell into the peer pressure of the whole table telling me that I had to try it. Gag! I am not a fan by any means of fish and I mixed it with every carb on my plate! I was still traumatized from the weekend before when DJ and I went out for our anniversary. He told me that if I tried a fried oyster that he would get me an order of mozzarella sticks! If anyone knows me, they know how much I absolutely love mozzarella sticks. So......I agreed. Well, when the order came, he cut me off a piece of the fried oyster and black stuff started to ooze out of it! I said, "What the heck is that?!" He said just eat it!!!! I literally almost threw up on my plate. So, needless to say that I was a bit skeptical to eat this fish.</div>
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These were a huge hit. Portuguese smashed potatoes. They were covered with fried onions and blue cheese. Now, the moldy cheese could have been switched for a better one, but they were still good nonetheless.</div>
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I was very thankful for this fresh element of the dinner. It is a fresh salad with tomatoes, chickpeas, and fresh herbs. It was definitely different, but very tasty.</div>
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Portuguese kale soup. This soup had great flavor, but I am not a fan of kale, collard greens, or spinach in soup. It's just weird! And our darling baby, Belle, calls everything like that a leaf! She screams and says "Weaf, weaf, weaf" and refuses to eat it. However, the other children enjoyed it. </div>
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Ok.....I just have to say what everyone else is thinking for this picture. It looks like cat throw up! DJ said that I need to get better at taking pictures and I agree! I'm clearly an amateur. Even though this would not pass the presentation part on Chopped, his flavor was still there. It is a vegetable hash with cabbage, potatoes, herbs, and olives. T-Man devoured almost all of the olives before DJ could add them to the dish!</div>
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Portuguese Tomato Rice. This was a simple nice side dish to compliment the meal. It is essentially rice and beans with tomatoes.</div>
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OMG! This was I think one of my favorite desserts. I think it might actually trump the Italian Pear Cake he made for Italy. Portugueses Almond Torte. I recently got him some new spring form pans and he was excited to use them. I made the syrup for this cake and it smelled so delicious. Plus, we had it on Sunday so I was able to enjoy this with tea. Soo good.</div>
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Nito was presented with an extension of the Distributive Law today. This brought in the idea of arithmetic exploration. I apologize in advance for these pictures. I didn't really how bad the glare was until I put them on the computer. So, for your reference, the brown cards are 3 and 5 respectively.</div>
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The first set of parentheses has the 7 bar and the 2 bar that he will be multiplying by the brown 3 card and the 5 card. </div>
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He first turns over the brown 5 card so that he can multiply both bead bars by the brown 3 card. He then places his beads below. </div>
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Now, he turns the brown 3 card over and multiplies by the brown 5 card and places the beads below on the right hand side.</div>
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He then totals the individual columns and places that below.</div>
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He pushes all of the beads together.</div>
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Then he simplifies and trades in beads for the final answer. He ends up with the answer of 72.</div>
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So the great thing with the Montessori way of learning is that the child always has some way to check his answer. He doesn't really have to rely on the teacher to know if his answer is correct or not (which is great because I'm not always available!) For this problem, he can check his work using the communicative law. </div>
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Nito basically just flip flops the beads and the cards. He now has the 3 and 5 beads on the left with the brown 7 and 2 cards on the right. The same process is done as before. The brown 2 card gets turned over and the bead bars get multiplied by the brown 7 card with the answers being placed below.</div>
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The brown 7 card is flipped over and now the bead bars will be multiplied by the brown 2 card, placing the beads below.</div>
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Simplify and trade the beads in for the final answer. 72! Yay, his answer checks out.</div>
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Mmmmm.....it all started in the early morning with Sufganiyot stuffed with dulce la leche and delicious tea. DJ managed to whip out some Israeli donuts before Mass today. I'm not sure how he manages to pull all of these things off, but he did and they were delicious. </div>
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Kui wrote down all of the menu items for us this week. Time was not on DJ's side by late afternoon for all of these and the cauliflower didn't make an appearance. The baba ganoush made a late appearance very close to dessert and I actually don't have a picture. It resembles a hummus that you can eat with pita bread for those who are interested. It is made out of eggplant. Interesting.... is really the only word I have to describe it!</div>
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I was put on a few tasks this Sunday since some last minute things popped up at church for DJ. This was one of them. Lots and lots of chopping, but it was well worth it. This salad had tomatoes, cucumber, red and yellow bell pepper, red onion, fresh mint and parsley, lemon zest and lemon juice. A great fresh element to the dinner for sure. Kui, who would rather eat a snake than tomatoes, said she actually liked this. Woohoo!!</div>
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Another task I was put on. Let's say that this was definitely a first for me. I have never made a dough using coconut oil and I think I never will again. It was not the consistency I was expecting and very hard to work with. I think I sort of pulled off what the pictures look like online! Don't mind the hunk missing in the crust at the top of the picture. DJ tore off a hunk to taste it and I said, "Seriously, I didn't get a pic first!" This gallette has butternut squash, carrots, apple, and red onion. It has a maple syrup and lemon drizzle. </div>
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Here is a picture with everything mixed together. The way my hubby likes to eat it. There is falafel made from chickpeas, tahini sauce made from sesame seeds, the salad, and some filling from the gallette. </div>
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Marzipan Chocolate Rugelach</div>
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The children had costumes and a play all ready, but then a certain child decided to cause drama for everyone and everything was called off by the head honcho in charge, Kui! She called it off once one of the cast members left and so we have no pictures or a play to show for Israel. However, the kids did have a surprise visitor, their pediatrician made a house call! Mumbs has not been feeling well so her doctor stopped by after Mass and it ended up being perfect timing for dinner. She joined us for dinner and made our night special. They shared all about our tradition and the previous countries that we have done. <br />
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Next week, Portugal! Stay tuned.Our Lady of Good Counselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13576516245055282380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7837674671612416584.post-11729199434335791242020-02-20T09:04:00.000-05:002020-02-20T09:04:31.181-05:00Geometric Multiplication <div style="text-align: center;">
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Today I reviewed the concept of geometric multiplication with Bubs. It is a simple multiplication problem, but the child draws it on graph paper and color codes it. The problem he started with was 3,748 x 53. </div>
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He first started with drawing the multiplicand of 3,748. He started in the bottom right hand corner of the paper and made a dot. Then he counted eight units to the left for the first number of his multiplicand. He made another dot. The length of that line represents eight units so he drew a line to connect the dots and wrote an "8" underneath the line.</div>
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Here is the multiplicand graphed on paper.<br />
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Next he drew the multiplier. He started with the same dot as the 8 for the units at the bottom right hand corner of the paper. However, now he will move upwards counting vertically, instead of across the paper horizontally. The unit of the multiplier is 3. He counted up 3 lines and drew a dot. Connect the lines and write a 3 to the right of the line. This length represents the three units of the multiplier. He connected all of the dots to make a rectangle. He is multiplying so he will multiply the units by the units to get some amount. How much is 8 x 3? 24. This equation is written in the rectangle and then colored green for units.<br />
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He continues for the remaining categories and colors them according to their category: blue for tens, red for hundreds, and green for thousands. You should be able to click on the picture to enlarge if the picture is too small.<br />
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Now, he moved to the next row vertically to multiply the 50 tens. He multiplied 50 x 8. That gave him 400 units. He marked the lines vertically and created another rectangle. Then he colored it green for the units. </div>
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He continued with the remaining categories in the second row.</div>
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Here is our menu for our Venezuelan Cuisine.</div>
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Ok, so since I don't take pics of my kids faces (see why <a href="https://thejoysofmontessorihomeschooling.blogspot.com/2015/02/welcome.html">here</a>), I had to figure out a creative way to get a picture of their costume. I tried a profile pic here. I only captured the boys for this meal because the girls were still showering and getting dressed and then our guests arrived. For their costumes, we used kangas from Kenya, a sombrero from Mexico, and for some reason, my daughter chose to get T-Man an Australian outback hat. I didn't say anything though because she tried! HA.</div>
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Ok, so before we delve too deep into this global cuisine tradition, I would like to throw out a disclaimer that we usually don't buy any clothes/accessories for our dinners. We simply use what we have at home to try to recreate the outfits the best we can. So, I hope we don't offend anyone that may be reading from a particular country! That is not our intention.</div>
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The table is a great example of how we improvise. A lady I used to work with is from Guatemala and gave me this table runner. I decided to use it for Venezuela since it looked close enough!</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Our dinner started with Venezuelan Pan de Jamon as an appetizer. My husband knows that I'm not a fan of olives, so he left those out of this. He only put raisins and ham. He also burned the palm sugar and opted to use maple syrup as a substitute. The kids came running into the kitchen and told him enthusiastically that something was burning! It was his palm sugar!! He still pulled it off and it was a huge hit!</span></div>
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Our really good friends and our son, Bubs' Godparents, came over for dinner. They brought the traditional Venezuelan rice drink called Chicha. It was delicious. She added ice, the drink, cinnamon, and a cinnamon stick for added flavor and for stirring. Apparently, this drink was made by mothers and given to their kids after school to hold them over until dinnertime. </div>
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Here is a picture of the rest of the meal. It included Venezuelan Sweet Plantains, Pabellon Criollo (shredded skirt steak), Bollos Pelones (ground beef dumpling with leeks, olives, capers, and many other ingredients), Venezuelan beans and rice, and a cilantro mojo sauce to put on pretty much anything.</div>
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Dessert was a Chocolate Marquesa. It is a layered cake with maria cookies and premium baking chocolate. Let me just tell you that my darling husband makes great desserts, but the kitchen looked like a bomb went off after this. My kitchen aid mixer was covered with cocoa powder, smeared butter residue, drippings of dried sweet condensed milk, and a dusting of powdered sugar! I guess it was worth it in the end. </div>
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I attempted to cut it nicely for a picture, but it sort of fell apart. Not sure that it set for the 8 hr in the fridge. It still tasted delicious.</div>
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The kids ran out of time to perform their song, but I did get books from the library and the older ones read about Venezuela. Every week doesn't quite go as planned, but we always have a great time and love listening to the different music from each country. The main point is that we are building a tradition of having dinner as a family on Sundays and exposing our children to different cultures. </div>
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Today, I showed Bubs how to do long division using the stamp game. He practiced writing it down on paper as well. He tried to jump straight to paper and was struggling a bit, so we brought out the stamp game for reinforcements. He has pretty much mastered racks and tubes and feels like the stamp game is "baby" work and actually started crying like a "baby" today when I told him to go get it off of the shelf!</div>
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Once we moved past all of the tears, he set up his problem. He divided 4,297 by 28. The white strip is his division bar. He lays out all of the tiles for the dividend and writes the divisor on a piece of paper. (Sorry, the picture doesn't show the number on the white paper very well.)</div>
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He uses his button (the green circle above the division bar) to keep track of which category he is working on. He then asks himself the question, "How many groups of 28 can I make with 4 thousands?" His answer is zero.</div>
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He moves the button over the hundreds category. The thousands and hundreds get pushed together. Then he asks his question again. "How many groups of 28 can I make with 42 hundreds?" He now needs to exchange one of his thousand tiles for 10 red hundred tiles.</div>
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He exchanges his tile and then makes one group of 28. His remaining tiles are 1 thousand tile and 4 hundred tiles. </div>
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He records his answer on his paper. He put a 1 above the 2 in his dividend. He asks the question of how many did he use. The answer is 28 of 42. His remainder is 14. This should match the amount of tiles he has left over. Ideally, he writes his number on a blank ticket and places it in the correct category column above the division bar along with recording it on his paper.</div>
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The button is now moved over the ten category column. At this point, thousands, hundreds, and tens need to be pushed together. Remember, since the divisor has two digits, he can only have two different colors, or categories to work with. He will need to exchange his green thousand tile for 10 hundred tiles.</div>
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"How many groups of 28 can I make with 140 tens?" He starts sharing the tiles and comes up with 5 groups. He has 9 tiles left over. Bubs records his answer on his paper.</div>
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This is what the final problem should look like all laid out. You can see how the categories end up at the bottom by the time you reach the units so the child can visualize that the number needs to be "brought down". Oh my...just seeing those random pencils in the picture again. Bubs! He was obsessed with getting those in the pics.</div>
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Today I presented multiplication on the large bead frame to Nito. He was so excited to do this and actually said it was fun! Ha. Go figure, math being fun. He had the biggest grin on his face when he would check his answer and get it right. The picture above is the large bead frame. It has categories up to 1 million, unlike the small bead frame which only goes to 1, 000.</div>
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Unfortunately, I didn't have (or honestly can't find) the paper specifically for the large bead frame, so he had to use the small bead frame paper. I just added the columns for tens and hundreds for him. Ok, so here is his problem. 4,346 x 4. He first starts with decomposing the number on the paper. He starts with the units, which is 6. Then he moves to the tens and records it as 40. When he has completed decomposing, he makes brackets around the number and writes down what he is multiplying by, which is 4 for this problem.</div>
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Now it's time to move the beads on the frame. The first number is units times the multiplier, which is 6 x 4, or 24. He moves 4 unit beads to the right and then 2 ten beads to the right to form 24 on the frame. </div>
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He moves to the tens. 4 x 4 which is 16. He moves the ten beads until he reaches 10, then moves 1 hundred bead to the right, pushes the tens back to the left and keeps counting until he reaches 16. </div>
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The next category is hundreds. The same process is done, moving a thousand bead when needed.</div>
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Here is his paper when he is finished. He also did a few other problems since he thought it was so much fun and he got them all right.</div>
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Nito and Bubs dabbled with some command cards from various grammar boxes today. I wanted them to spend some time together working nicely while I had to step away and these usually work well since they have to stay active and move around the classroom. </div>
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In this picture, they had to use pieces from the pink tower. The adjectives were large, largest, small, and smallest. Sorry, the pictures aren't the greatest. Poor lighting!</div>
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Ok, so I was clearly not available to help them with some of these, but they improvised nicely. They were supposed to use the circles in the plane insets. However, they chose the globe, the clock stand, and a clay shaping piece. The adjectives were large, small, and intermediate.</div>
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Oh my! Here is another example of how they didn't read the card correctly, but they still made it work. They were supposed to only use one color of tablets, but instead they chose white, yellow, brown, and black. The adjectives were light, lightest, dark, and darkest. </div>
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Ok, so these guys are hilarious! At least they keep me smiling in the sometimes very stressful school day. I would have chosen the smooth and rough boards for this work, but they chose a music staff board, a metal inset, a rough basket, and a rock. The adjectives were smooth, smoother, rough, and roughest. </div>
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Here we have light, lightest, heavy, and heaviest. They actually whipped out the scale for this and somehow managed to put the candle and the thesaurus on it to see which one was heavier! This makes me think that perhaps I should go and check on the status of our scale. It could be broken at this point!</div>
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I am finally getting around to posting (hopefully keeping it updated weekly) <a href="http://thejoysofmontessorihomeschooling.blogspot.com/p/global-cuisine.html">a page</a> on the blog about the meals that my husband, DJ, cooks for our family every Sunday. This tradition started almost a year ago when DJ cooked a meal for me for our anniversary. Now, to give you some background information, my husband does NOT cook. Well, at least he didn't a year ago. His cooking consisted of oatmeal pancakes and anything on the gas grill outside. That was the extent of it. He decided to surprise me for our anniversary and cooked me all of my favorite foods. Now, to be honest, I was a bit skeptical and a bit disappointed that we didn't go out for dinner. With 6 kids, we don't get out much and an anniversary was a great excuse to get out of the house!<br />
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To make a long story short, his dinner was fabulous and he actually thought it was fun to cook for me for a change. The following week he decided that he would try cooking for all of us on Sunday since he didn't have a lot going on. He chose to cook something from Spain because we have been planning a trip there for awhile. It was a huge success so he decided to make it a tradition. I told a friend of mine about the idea and she took it a step further and suggested that I turn it into a homeschooling project and the kids would have to research the country that he was cooking for. They would do a play, song, or give information on that country after dinner.<br />
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The kids have had a blast with this and my oldest daughter writes plays or musicals quite a bit. They also dress up as close as they can to the traditional clothing from that country. I will try to include pictures of their clothing, but it might prove to be a bit difficult since I do not include their faces. I will also be posting pictures of the dishes he makes. Music also makes an appearance at the dinner table and the kids love to learn new songs in different languages. Their favorite is a Portuguese song called, Roda, Roda, Roda, (Caranguejo peixe e). They did this song for Brazil.<br />
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DJ chose the first country, but then each week a different child chooses the country they want. For the ones who can't read, we spin the globe and they point to a country. We have ended up with some very, let's just say, interesting cuisines for our boring palates. This has really helped to expand our children's tastes buds and try new things. Ok, let's be honest, it has helped expand their mama's tastes buds as well! I am quite the picky eater sometimes.<br />
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Here is a list of the countries that we have already done. There were quite a few weeks when we had visitors or were away for some time so the meals did not happen every Sunday.<br />
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Spain, Italy, Angola, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Sudan, Brazil, Chile, Jamaica, Libya, Singapore (not a repeat), India, Belize, France, Guatemala, Japan, Lebanon, Turkey, Switzerland, Egypt, and Vietnam.<br />
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The picture above is from our last Sunday's meal from Puerto Rico. The dessert was super yummy. I was very impressed with my husband's ability to make a flan! Next week: Venezuela! Stay tuned.<br />
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Nito was shown another presentation in the sequence for Distributive Law for Multiplication. It seems that I have never posted anything for the Commutative Law, which is usually a prerequisite for this presentation. I'll have to get on that! However, I do show at the end of this presentation how to check your answer using the Commutative Law.</div>
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As I mentioned above, he has done the presentations on the Commutative Law, the exchanging of the multiplier with the multiplicand. For this presentation, I chose a sum of two numbers for the multiplicand. In the picture above, I chose 5 and 2. Since I am considering it a sum, he puts parentheses around the two bead bars. He will take this sum 3 times. He uses a brown 3 card and places it on the outside of the parenthesis. Ok, now ideally the child uses a gray card, but all I had on hand was brown construction paper when I made these materials. I mean, who has time to drive 45m-1 hour round trip to Michael's with 6 kids just to get gray paper?! Honestly, it doesn't matter the color paper, as long as it isn't white.</div>
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This is the box of bead bars that he uses. It is a bit different from the checkerboard bead box because this one includes the ten bars.</div>
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What does taking this sum 3 times mean? It means taking the 5 bar 3 times and the 2 bar 3 times. The blue beads are the 5 bars and the green are the 2 bars.</div>
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Then the value is calculated and placed underneath the respective columns (15 and 6).</div>
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Then the beads are pushed together.</div>
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Now, the beads are exchanged to make a single number of 21.</div>
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Since the child knows the commutative law, he can check his answer. It says if you exchange the multiplier with the multiplicand, then you should get the same answer. Nito laid out the problem after exchanging beads for tickets and tickets for beads. In the picture above, the distributive law is on the left hand side and the commutative law is on the right hand side. He laid out a 3 bead bar and now has a 5 and 2 brown card inside the parentheses. </div>
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He begins by taking the 3 bead bar 5 times and then takes it 2 times. He finds the answer and places the single number below.</div>
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This picture shows that the commutative law on the right hand side has an answer of 21 which matches his distributive law answer of 21. His work checked out!</div>
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This presentation seemed to get passed by with my older three kids, but I sat down and purchased the ACTUAL small bead frame for T-Man and the other 3 siblings after him. I was on a tighter budget back then and had more pressing materials to buy rather than a small bead frame. I mean, we have the large one, so can't we just use that?! The short answer is yes, but the longer answer is no. Clearly Maria Montessori created a smaller one for a purpose right?<br />
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The first step in introducing this new material to the child is to compare the beads to the stamp game. Hopefully the child has experience with the stamp game and would know this comparison. Show the child that the green 1 unit tile from the stamp game is the same as 1 green unit bead on the frame. Do this for all four categories. This is where it is very helpful to have the small bead frame compared to the large one! There is a lot less explaining about how the child would need to ignore the bottom few rows of beads since the large bead frame goes up to 1 million.<br />
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Now the child needs to know how many beads are on each line. Count the beads, one at a time, while pushing them to the right. </div>
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Then slide the 10 units back to the left and tell the child that 10 units is equal to 1 ten.<br />
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Now, push 1 ten to the right hand side. Continue counting tens (1 ten, 2 tens, etc.) and exchange for a hundred bead. Do the same through the thousands.</div>
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T-Man worked with static addition problems for a day or two before he quickly wanted to move along to dynamic addition. Unfortunately, I didn't take pictures of his static addition. For an example of static vs. dynamic, see <a href="https://thejoysofmontessorihomeschooling.blogspot.com/search?q=stamp+game">this post</a> from the stamp game. Short story, static involves simple addition, while dynamic involved carrying of the numbers. </div>
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He started by writing his equation on his small bead frame paper. His equation is 9+7.</div>
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He moved 9 green (unit) beads to the right side of the frame.</div>
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Then he started adding 7 to the 9 green beads. He pushed 1 bead over and stopped because he was at 10. Then he pushed all 10 green beads back to the left and then moved 1 blue (ten) bead to the right. He went back up to the green beads and continued counting with 2, 3, etc. until he got to 7. </div>
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Now he took his pencil and recorded how many green beads he had. He wrote down 6 on the green line under the units column. He then recorded how many blue beads he had (1) and wrote it on the blue line, or the tens column. </div>
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Here are more of his equations. We will move on to larger equations in the next few weeks. I'll try to update this post and add pictures. </div>
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I think I took this picture before he stirred, but it will be orange.</div>
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He took his handy dandy stirring spoon and discovered that he just made the color purple! He giggled and was so excited.</div>
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Bubs was working on positioning of lines and types of angles today.</div>
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Mumbs took a stab at lacing.</div>
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Nito working on the distributive law of multiplication.</div>
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Bubs loves these snap circuits! He has been working on some new engineering/coding material that I should hopefully be posting about soon. </div>
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Mumbs loves the smooth/rough boards!</div>
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Nito was presented lines today. This is a terrible angle, but the blue water represents the horizontal line like what you would see if you are looking out at the horizon while on the beach. He could easily visualize that since we went to the beach a few months ago.</div>
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The follow up to his presentation was the nomenclature booklets.</div>
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Sorry this picture is blurry. He tried his best to match them up. He still needs some practice on this one. Thankfully he can check the control booklet because I can't remember all of those things!</div>
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T-Man was finally shown watercolors. He was so excited to be able to use the materials that he always sees his brother doing. </div>
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Of course it didn't take Bubs long to get out his version of painting after he saw T-Man.</div>
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Nito started working on homophones. He was able to name quite a few not on this list. I think he got this pretty easy and we can move on.</div>
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I introduced the idea of magnetism to Bubs. The first lesson was just the idea of the magnetic force and then he went around the room with his clipboard trying to stick magnets to everything. He recorded his answers on his table. It was super cute. He looked all official! All he needed was a pencil behind the ear to pull off the look!</div>
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Nito was shown addition of fractions. Oh my goodness, for anyone who knows how animated Nito is, they would appreciate this. We did 1/4 + 1/4. He came up with the answer of 2/4. Then as part of the presentation he is supposed to see if any larger fractions fit within the space on the inset (which teaches reduction of a fraction). So he checked thirds, no. He checked halves, YES!! He jumped out of his chair and starting laughing, "Ha Ha Ha Ha". He was so excited that it fit. You can only guess his enthusiasm when he reduced 1/4 + 3/4. Yes, it equals 1 whole!! </div>
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Mumbs working on the binomial cube. Does it ever surprise anyone else when you come to see your child working "next to" the work rug instead of actually on it?! I mean, I guess I have to give her credit for getting one out. Now, I just need her to actually use it.</div>
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Because this guy is perfectly chill not using a work rug at all. I got this crazy, wild, colorful rug to add some fun and color to the classroom, but I don't see how they can actually see their work without a work rug, especially something like color tablets!</div>
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T-Man working on the addition strip board. Man......I didn't have the heart to tell him that his strips were not going to fit at that particular desk. He is so stubborn sometimes and has to learn the hard way. Well.....he did when they all started falling off. He threw himself on the ground and started crying. It was actually quite comical and we all started laughing. Then he busted out laughing and we moved him to a work rug with much more room to spread out. </div>
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Ok so this presentation is a bit cray cray and hard to capture in pictures. I tried my best! I will continue to post as we work through the album on the subject. I enjoyed doing this presentation with my boys, because......they are boys! I asked them to gather the materials and they were giddy knowing that it involved bricks, a crazy lamp without its shade, string with a nut on one end and the best part which was so intriguing..........the BATHROOM!!!! Well, I needed a dark place so what better place than that right? I mean we are in the basement so it works perfectly since there are no windows. That being said, don't mind the toilet, shower, whatever else crazy you might see in the background. Focus on the materials! Ha.</div>
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I started off explaining how the Earth rotates around the sun on an invisible string, which is where the nut on a string came into play. Now, when you are swinging this around your head for the visual, be sure not to whack someone or something in the process! Pretty sure I hit my eye the first try. Moving on......I told the boys that I would let them try under my supervision, but that it was not a toy and I wouldn't leave that on the shelf for them to "investigate further" with it. We all know how that story would play out. </div>
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I went on to explain that the Earth moves around the sun, but that it also turns on itself in the process. In the picture above, Bubs is the sun and Nito is spinning himself dizzy while he is "trying" to circle Bubs without hitting the toilet or the shower at the same time.</div>
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Here is the fun part. Turning off the bathroom light and turning on the lamp. The lamp clearly represents the sun and we have the globe for our Earth. The story continues to talk about how much of the sun's rays actually hit us and what would happen if the Earth did not turn on itself. The lamp shines on one side of the Earth and then creates a shadow on the other side. Bubs was quick to announce that this is how we have night and day (he clearly had this presentation with Kui when he was younger). But for Nito and T-Man, they were just enjoying the presentation..</div>
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These charts help to show how large the sun is and how powerful the rays can be. I don't believe you can see it in this picture, but there is a small circle on the bottom right hand side of the chart on the right. It represents Earth. This shows the child how small Earth is to the sun. The chart on the left symbolizes what would happen to the Earth if it did not turn on itself. The portion that was in the sun (the flames) would essentially burn up over time and would never be able to sustain any type of life. The portion that was in the shade from the sun (the icicles) would freeze and also never be able to sustain any type of life. </div>
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I basically stopped the presentation there on that day. The boys wanted to play a game with the globe and we chose different countries. They would make the country be sleeping, eating breakfast, taking a nap, etc. For example, Bubs chose Japan. He said he wanted to make Japan sleeping. So, Nito found Japan on the globe and moved it into the shadow of the sun's rays. Although this was a silly activity, it was a great impromptu geography lesson!</div>
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Ah the checkerboard.......It has to be one of my favorite lower elementary materials. I'm not quite sure why I haven't posted on this yet. My mother, Gigi, was very kind to make me this checkerboard which can be rolled up and stored like a work rug for the child. She saved me some precious moolah and also made a decimal checkerboard while she was at it. It's great to have a supportive grandmother!<br />
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The checkerboard has 4 rows and 9 columns of squares arranged in hierarchical colors: green for units, blue for tens, red for hundreds, and green for thousands. These are the same colors used in previous math materials so the child will be very familiar with them. The columns range from unit to millions while the individual squares account for units to one billion. The individual rows not only represent value, they represent the partial products of multi-digit multiplication! The child can make some large numbers (which Bubs was always excited to do).<br />
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Some people are hesitant to start this work for a child if the child has not learned all of his multiplication facts. However, because the child uses bead bars, there is no need to have the facts memorized. The child can multiply large numbers while skip counting with the bead bars. After much use of this material, the facts are mastered. <br />
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Nito has already worked with the checkerboard before. Today, I presented the 2 digit multiplicand and 2 digit multiplier. I will walk you through the steps.</div>
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The problem is 79 x 12. He uses the color coded numbers I made for him which correspond to the square on the checkerboard. (Green for unit, blue for ten, etc.)</div>
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First, he turns over the ten card for both the multiplicand and the multiplier. He is focusing on the units first. He will multiply 9 x 2 which is 18. He places a brown 8 bar in the units square and a red 1 bar in the tens square. This now reads "18". </div>
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Second, he turns over the 9 unit card and turn the 7 tens card face up. Now he is ready to multiply 7 and 2 which is 14. Now, for the child who is first learning this material, they will focus on the fact that it is 14. However, as the child progresses, we point out to them that it is really 7 tens and 2 units which makes it 70 x 2. Therefore the answer is 140, not 14. This is why you see the yellow 4 bead bar in the tens square and the red 1 bar in the red hundreds square. The green unit square still only has the brown 8 bar. </div>
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Now the child has successfully multiplied the multiplicand by the unit of the multiplier. It is time to move on the ten of the multiplier which is the blue 1 card. The child starts over with the green 9 unit card being flipped over and will now multiply the 9 by the 1. A blue 9 bar is placed in the ten square above the green unit square. Remember, we are really multiplying 9 x 10. This makes the unit have zero and the ten have a 9 bar.</div>
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The steps are repeated as before. The green unit card is flipped over and the blue ten card is face up to now multiply 7 x 1 or really 70 x 10 giving us 700. We place a white 7 bar in the red hundred square.</div>
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The multiplying is complete and now requires us to push all of our beads together. We do this in an orderly fashion of pushing each column diagonally to the left staying with the same color squares. For example, the blue 9 bar from the ten square on the second row gets pushed diagonally to the left to end up in the blue 10 square on the bottom row. Continue with all squares with beads.</div>
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The last few days have been pretty productive in our classroom. I have to admit that it is probably because I finally got my boys a planner to write down their work each day. It is a bit non-traditional in Montessori to write down what the kids are expected to do in one day, but it has really helped build my boys work ethic and I think I will stick with it for a few months and slowly wean them off of it. For whatever reason, they just haven't built that inner discipline to be able to choose something off of the shelf correctly. Ok, there really isn't a right or wrong way to choose something off of the shelf, but when they are constantly choosing snap circuits or reading a book, I had to drawn the line, or at least come to a happy compromise, for the moment! Record keeping in Montessori is something on my list to blog about in the near future.<br />
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Nito working on the decanomial square (sensorial decanomial) again. He has such a sense of order and this material really speaks to him. The main purpose of this material is to help the child discriminate size, shape, and color. It is also a preparation for math and squaring. I also think that it pulls Nito in because of the visual harmony that is established and he can see when he gets off of the pattern.</div>
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T-Man was presented the short chains earlier this week and has taken them off of the bead cabinet everyday since! It is a great early work for multiples.</div>
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Nito working on Grammar Box II. He loves finding the patterns of the different plurals for nouns. For instance, to add "ies", almost every word ends in the letter "y". </div>
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Mumbs "built" the pink tower. However, when I started asking her to find me the largest one, the next largest one, and so on.....she built the tower easy peasy.</div>
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This was her building it onto the stand to put it away after about the 5th time.</div>
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Nito started the suffix chart today. As soon as I started showing him the materials, Bubs interrupted and said, "Oh, that is not fun Nito!" I quickly told him to hush and get back to his work! He's tainting the fresh perspective of his brother. Now, this isn't the first time this has happened in the classroom. Kui was notorious for tainting Bubs' view on fractions and it is quite difficult to undo something like that, no matter how fun you try to make fractions!</div>
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After the presentation, Nito DID happen to say that it was fun. I was happy to hear that. As for the picture above, the child chooses a word from the chart. The base (root) word is put in black and then the suffix is added with the red moveable alphabet. The same will apply when he works with the prefix chart.</div>
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T-Man working on his letters on the chalkboard. He's a lefty like his mama (and Gigi)!</div>
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Mumbs and I worked on the action cards. These are great for her age because she loves looking at the pictures. We can easily do a three period lesson. For example, show me "licking". Hand me "hugging".</div>
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Bubs worked diligently for quite some time with the geometric form of multiplication. He was excited to have a new presentation and it involved colored pencils!! He does really well in math and picked it up quickly.</div>
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T-Man is still working on his beginning sounds using the movable alphabet. He is struggling a bit with the transition of how the sandpaper letters look versus the movable alphabet letters. There is a bit of a difference, which is overcome fairly easily with a little bit of practice. The older children worked through it fine. Unfortunately, It's the downfall of not buying the expensive Neinhuis materials. :(</div>
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I have to call this post "Round 2" because I first posted this for Bubs and Nito about 4 years ago. See that post <a href="http://thejoysofmontessorihomeschooling.blogspot.com/search?q=bells">here</a>. At least the bells have held up for the next round of kiddos to use them. I still have more up and coming children and I'm sure they will continue to last. Perhaps I will eventually splurge and by the official Montessori bells. They are pretty fancy on a nice stand and have a real damper! Ooh la la. Here is a <a href="https://www.nienhuis.com/us/en/bells-set-nienhuis-montessori-usa/product/4466/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIw8zNk-DJ5QIVVNyGCh1rFQ4YEAQYASABEgLqlfD_BwE">picture</a>.<br />
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Mumbs and T-Man spent an hour working with the bells. It was the first time Mumbs had worked with them. She was really just T-Man's partner, but we won't tell her that!<br />
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Here is our set of bells. There are 8 white bells and 5 white bells with black handles, which are the chromatic ones. The matching set is behind and colored brown. We are gradually adding more music materials, but I have to admit that it gets pushed to the back of the line in presentations.<br />
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So before we could even start, the toddler had to have her OWN work rug with her OWN bells. I gave her the sharp notes and she didn't know any better.<br />
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Mumbs is setting up her bells. She was the ringer.<br />
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T-Man sat across the classroom and waited for Mumbs to ring her first bell. His goal was to find the matching sound of the bell that she rang.<br />
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He rang each bell and if it didn't match, he placed it in a pile.<br />
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Mumbs starting sandpaper letters and she is doing so well! I don't think I have ever managed to start a child at 3 yr. old when you are supposed to! I can see a huge difference with her interest and attention to detail when she traces each letter. She started with 3 vowels and after a week, she knows all three short sounds that the vowel makes. </div>
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Progress has been made now that the toddler has left the room!</div>
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Yay for Mumbs! After some diligence, she got the red rods in order.</div>
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Brotherly love. Nito reinforces his knowledge of the bow frame while he shows his brother T-Man. </div>
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After the bow frame was brought out by her brother, Mumbs felt compelled to do the zipper frame. Although she mastered that awhile ago! </div>
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Hmm.....some may ask where Bubs and Kui are. Where was Bubs today???? That is a great question. I believe he was working diligently on his spelling and vocabulary along with writing a story about construction workers. Kui has officially moved on to a different homeschooling curriculum now that she is in 7th grade. Unfortunately, we do not have a farm school close enough for her to attend. </div>
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The three boys have been working on their papier mache globe for over a week now. I got the idea from the book, <u>A Child's Geography: Explore His Earth by Ann Voskamp.</u> We started this endeavor after T-Man had such interest in the world map. Of course, the older boys had to join in because it was too messy and fun to not be involved. And don't forget that it wouldn't "be fair"!. </div>
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1. <b>Rip strips of newspaper.</b> How many you ask? A TON. Every free moment they had, they were ripping newspapers into strips. Just a tip, have them do this outside! You wouldn't believe the mess that newspaper makes from black hands to random pieces of newspaper strewn from one side of the room to the other. The strips should be about an inch wide and about 6-8 inches long. Although the length doesn't really matter. </div>
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2. <b>Make the paper mache dough</b>. Mix one cup flour with one cup water. Then add 4 cups of boiling water and voila! A super duper sticky mess. I propose that you make this in advance because it will need to cool for some time. The kids can't dip their strips into a boiling hot dough. Now, I have to admit that this was the first time I have ever made paper mache dough. It sounded straightforward. I mean how hard could it really be? Well.......apparently for me it can be tricky. My first batch ended up being a clumpy mess once it cooled. We were still able to maneuver around with it, but I'm pretty sure it is supposed to be clump free. If anyone has had good luck with it, please leave me a comment below. I know this won't be our last effort with paper mache. </div>
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3. <b>Blow up your balloons. </b> The boys did this themselves thankfully. We did have to end up doing a few extra for the young girls who now wanted them to play with and of course, inevitably, one of the boys popped before we even got started!</div>
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Alright. Everything is a go. The boys are putting their first strips on. We found it very tricky to hold the balloon and do the strips at the same time. It was helpful for one person to hold the balloon while the other person placed the strips.</div>
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The first layer is complete. Now it needs to be completely dry before a new coat is added. The balloons need three coats before they can be painted.</div>
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This is what the second coat looks like.</div>
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The third coat is finally finished!</div>
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Ok, so by the end of the week (which is how long it took for all of the layers to go on and dry), the balloons had seen better treatment. Some of the boys decided to use their balloons as soccer balls, weapons, etc. and now they look a bit like a tattered pinata. This was Nito's balloon. They painted the entire balloon blue for the oceans. Then they started drawing the continents. This was to be Australia.</div>
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After the outlines were made, they began to paint the globes. They followed the colors from the original world map puzzle. (See that presentation <a href="https://thejoysofmontessorihomeschooling.blogspot.com/">here</a>.)</div>
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Nito was very proud of his. I refrained from telling him it looked quite interesting with a big hole in his Earth. T-Man used his as a soccer ball.</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">The World Map is always exciting to do with young children. They see the globe in our classroom everyday, but can not quite fully grasp how large our Earth really is. T-Man has been working with this for awhile now, but Mumbs happened to join in today and it was very cute.</span></div>
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The presentation consists of the child learning the names of the continents and then being able to label them. However, T-Man can't read yet, so it requires an older child or myself working with him to accurately name the continents.</div>
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After he labels the continents, he places them back in the puzzle. Then we do another 2nd period lesson with the names. He is not quite at the 3rd period lesson. We will hopefully move to that soon. It's quite funny though. He calls Africa, "Kenya". Hey, at least he knows that Kenya is on that continent! So, there is clearly some work to be done. Mumbs is nearby during the presentation so she is absorbing all of it. </div>
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Here is our Geography shelf. It is a bit sad looking these days. The colored boxes are the continent boxes (which I will post on another day). However, some of the labels are ripped off from past crawling babies and it has clearly not been on the priority list to fix them. The maps are disheveled and prop</div>
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Once the presentation was done, I took T-Man back to the globe to emphasize that the two "hemispheres" or circles that he was seeing on the flat map, were actually round. Then we read a book with some interesting facts about each continent. </div>
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Another material he used was some information on each continent. It has a few cards for each one with famous landmarks. I have continent boxes as well, but I usually present those as an extension after the child has done the individual continent map. It contains food, clothing, musical instruments, animals, etc. from that particular continent. See that post <a href="http://thejoysofmontessorihomeschooling.blogspot.com/search?q=world+map+and+continent+box">here</a>.</div>
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Here is a picture of the set of equations that we use for the stamp game. It breaks the equations up for the child depending on what they are working on. The answers are on the back which help create independence for the child.</div>
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The stamp game can be used for all four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division). This is the material, which again is color coded for the child. Hence, green is for units, blue for tens, red for hundreds, etc.</div>
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The stamp game also has specific paper to make it easier for the child, but you could easily make this yourself or use graph paper.</div>
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Here is what the equation card looks like. Again, these equations are fantastic because they are color coded for the child.</div>
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I have Nito write out his problem on the paper before he begins to set up his material on his felt mat. </div>
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Here is the problem laid out in the beginning. He first sets out the top number. </div>
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Then he lays out the second addend underneath. (If you click on the picture, the card with the number will be easier to see. I'm sorry if there is a glare.) </div>
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This picture shows that he starts with the units. So he pushed his 1 unit up with his 8 units since he is adding. Then he counted all of his units again to find that he had 9 units altogether. </div>
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Then he recorded his answer for the units.</div>
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Recording his answer as he goes.</div>
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When he is done with the problem, he turns the equation card over to check his answer. Yay! He got it right. (The SG in the left hand corner indicates Stamp Game. We have additional equations for the Golden Bead Material (GBM) in the same box so it is helpful to have them labeled.)</div>
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Nito set up his problem in the same manner as if doing static addition. He laid out his first addend.</div>
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Then he laid out the second addend below.</div>
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He pushed his 6 units up with the 7 units. Then he starts to count them.</div>
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He stopped when he got to 10 and then replaced the 10 green unit squares with a blue 10 square shown above.</div>
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Now the blue 10 unit was put at the bottom of the tens column and the units column now has the remaining units, which is 3. He then recorded the 3 units on his paper.</div>
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He continued with pushing the tens together, counting, and recording his answer.</div>
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