First part of 2018
Preston playing Jenga, which he got for Christmas. New Year's Eve Getting ready to go out and make noise on New Year's Eve. A great picture of all the kids spontaneously making art together. (That is the art kit you gave Dallin the year before for Christmas.) Preston made a fort out of all our empty packing boxes. At the end of January, we started Preston's math unit, which then got interrupted in favor of packing, and we didn't completely finish it until the middle of April! We introduced the four operations through a story about four gnomes who help mine jewels underground and then help the Gnome King Equals make sure all the jewels are counted properly. Each gnome represents a different operation. This was too long ago (and too much water under the bridge) for me to remember the specific activity, but it was one of many with manipulatives as we worked through understanding the four operations. It looks like Gnome Divid