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Trying our best with Beans at the Puddle.

November 14, 2005 by

We’ve had visitors 🙂

Joanna has been over with her two, which was delightful. Didn’t get enough time to talk to Joanna, mainly because i had also invited the Beans to gatecrash but all the kids had a lovely time – and so did we. Great fun. Look on the Beans site for photos 🙂 Sorry about all the dotting about i did 🙂 Was great to get the MuddlePuddle Triplets together; for 3 babes born 2 weeks apart, they are so different. Never fails to amaze me.

This morning was simple and harmonious again; Fran is still absorbed by the rod book and has now also moved on to looking at the volume, area and perimeter one. She only did this while the visitors were here so i haven’t really explored it with her to any extent, but she seemed to be enjoying it.

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It was only as i was talking to my visitors that it struck me how odd it is that Fran has never done any playing with these at all; none of that make pictures/patterns/ imaginative play stuff that they go on about. it is only since she has had some concrete idea of how maths works on paper that she has taken an interest and now she is fascinated. She is using them constanrtly, really enjoying the alphabet book, keen to use them to do sums, make pictures, and build and compare. But that is my girl – completely backwards and baffling in every way 🙂

Maddy and i did maths as well, at her request. She has got the hang nicely now of using the rods to do addition and subtraction and is very fluent and able. Love watching her, but i may have mentioned that 😉

And there were other sundry things that happened too.

19000 words now – read some of it to Fran today. She was reasonably polite about it 😉

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Comments

  1. Amanda says

    November 14, 2005 at 10:34 pm

    The rods look interesting, are they a ‘in a box’ set with instructions?

  2. merry says

    November 15, 2005 at 12:06 am

    3 separate things – the rods are a set i got ages ago, the box is part of a montessori thing but she needed a way of building without it falling over and the book is from Ichthus Resources. Books are great, highly recommend them 🙂

  3. Joanna says

    November 15, 2005 at 9:29 am

    We had a great time! Will get round to blogging it sometime …..!

  4. merry says

    November 15, 2005 at 11:18 am

    I got it from School Surplus ages ago – i think it is bigger, yes, though i don’t know how many there are. But there are at probably about 100 whites in it.

  5. Louise says

    November 15, 2005 at 10:46 am

    Is that set a bigger one than the standard 74?

  6. HelenJ says

    November 15, 2005 at 12:27 pm

    argh icthus resources!!

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