So, we're playing cribbage...
Heidi
My eight year old girl and I are, and I'm thinking quite
schoolishly "ah, she'll be adding and figuring and doing numbers
here. Veddy good" thinking, you know, adding things to make 15 and
having to put points on the board, etc. Didn't say these things, mind
you. Thought em though!
And she says "Two plus five is six...seven, right?"
"Yes." I said. She fumbled around in the carrot bag (oh. We were
munching baby peeled carrots while we played cribbage)
She said "I have enough carrots here for everyone in the family to
have two more"
and I said "you do?"
and she said "Yeah, you know how I figured it out?" and went into
this WAAAAY complex, convoluted explanation of how she figured that
one more than five was six, but four more than six was 10, and since
we had three people in the room, and seven doesn't divide by three...
ehem...
well, however she got there, by the time she got done explaining it
to me, she had laid out ten carrots in groups of two. and that if she
put them in groups of five, she'd have two piles of five. And I
said "Yup. Two times five is ten. Five times two is ten." and she
said "I KNOW, mom. That's what I just explained to you."
LOL
HeidiC
schoolishly "ah, she'll be adding and figuring and doing numbers
here. Veddy good" thinking, you know, adding things to make 15 and
having to put points on the board, etc. Didn't say these things, mind
you. Thought em though!
And she says "Two plus five is six...seven, right?"
"Yes." I said. She fumbled around in the carrot bag (oh. We were
munching baby peeled carrots while we played cribbage)
She said "I have enough carrots here for everyone in the family to
have two more"
and I said "you do?"
and she said "Yeah, you know how I figured it out?" and went into
this WAAAAY complex, convoluted explanation of how she figured that
one more than five was six, but four more than six was 10, and since
we had three people in the room, and seven doesn't divide by three...
ehem...
well, however she got there, by the time she got done explaining it
to me, she had laid out ten carrots in groups of two. and that if she
put them in groups of five, she'd have two piles of five. And I
said "Yup. Two times five is ten. Five times two is ten." and she
said "I KNOW, mom. That's what I just explained to you."
LOL
HeidiC
Have A Nice Day!
LOL!!! Good one!
Kristen
Kristen
----- Original Message -----
From: Heidi
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 12:05 PM
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] So, we're playing cribbage...
My eight year old girl and I are, and I'm thinking quite
schoolishly "ah, she'll be adding and figuring and doing numbers
here. Veddy good" thinking, you know, adding things to make 15 and
having to put points on the board, etc. Didn't say these things, mind
you. Thought em though!
And she says "Two plus five is six...seven, right?"
"Yes." I said. She fumbled around in the carrot bag (oh. We were
munching baby peeled carrots while we played cribbage)
She said "I have enough carrots here for everyone in the family to
have two more"
and I said "you do?"
and she said "Yeah, you know how I figured it out?" and went into
this WAAAAY complex, convoluted explanation of how she figured that
one more than five was six, but four more than six was 10, and since
we had three people in the room, and seven doesn't divide by three...
ehem...
well, however she got there, by the time she got done explaining it
to me, she had laid out ten carrots in groups of two. and that if she
put them in groups of five, she'd have two piles of five. And I
said "Yup. Two times five is ten. Five times two is ten." and she
said "I KNOW, mom. That's what I just explained to you."
LOL
HeidiC
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