I got it in my head that we should make an abacus with dowels and copper pipe pieces, so after breakfast I drove to Lowes with the littles. We bought dowels, nuts instead of pipe because it was much cheaper, PVC pipe pieces because it was fun to put together a la Blue Man Group, finish wood pieces for the edges of the abacus because it had perfect slots for the dowels, cork board for mats to sit on and sandpaper for sandpaper letters. I bought a montessori math kit and a few other supplies I will have to wait for Amazon to deliver. I also grabbed three sets of colors from the paint samples for color theory. When we got home I started to set things up and the kids got right to work. We crammed in lunch and brought the twins to school. When we got back Adam went down for a nap and I worked on the alphabet tiles. I had to wake up Adam and Aya for school pick up. When we got home the kids got right to work, Tayeb worked the longest, until 5:30, but Iman and Adam did a good job focusing as well. Tayeb skip counted by tens with the dimes ( I also have jars of pennies, nickels and quarters for more skip counting, addition, making change etc.). They built with the PVC pipe making sculptures/ pretend phones and marble mazes. They counted with the marbles and by adding the nuts to the dowels. They built with the magna tiles and the rainbow cubes. We organized the letter tiles by singing the alphabet and Iman and Tayeb spelled their names with the tiles. They learned about Primary, Secondary, Tertiary and Complimentary colors by sorting the paint samples. I reinforced this by painting a color wheel in watercolor and Tayeb made his own color wheel. All in all an awesome day one!
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