Day 150 - A Number

Today's photo criteria was 'a number'. By chance my class did a maths test today. Maths tests in year 2 are difficult. They don't understand that you can't just tell them the answers and that you want to find out what they know. My favourite question today was from one of my very clever girls today who asked me (when she pointed to were she had written 1000) if that was ten - hundred. Yes, I told her, ten hundreds do come after 900, but we call it a thousand. Even though what she suggested wasn't correct, strictly speaking, to me it really did demonstrate she understood place value, which was what we had been working on, through the week.

To inject a little inspiration into my blog this month, I have decided to play along with the challenge presented on Fat Mum Slim's blog (www.fatmumslim.com.au) and for today the theme was Day 29: A Number

Day 55 - Father Daughter Bonding

As we cooked a later than usual dinner tonight with Mum and Dad visiting, everyone seemed to end up in the kitchen. Yes, we do still have to paint the outside wall of the pantry! Dale and Jenna were bonding in this picture over some Maths. Jenna always likes a bit of a challenge in the area of Maths when she is bored and with 4 available adults to provide some challenging questions, she turned to her Dad for a few explanations. If you know Dale and his Maths skills well, you may think that is kind of ironic... considering that there were 3 other available adults!