Above is my work with counting by 5s (the start of our 5 times tables), below is J's, Zoo Boy's is on the bottom. This has dragged on too long to be ideal -- really it should have taken us just 2 weeks to get through all 6 numbers we are dealing with, but I've had to drag it out to 3 weeks due to J's birthday and all the hooplah that came along with that smack dab in the middle. I thought it would be OK to take longer, but the kids are losing interest, as is reflected in their work. J didn't put much effort into his, refusing to count past 40, and Zoo Boy abandoned trying to make the mother look like a 5 at all (although he still talks about how much he loves the Strange Family and keeps asking for more stories about them -- I may have to write a couple, because I don't think there are any more -- maybe I'll have to bring in some uncles and aunts!). One more number, then we can move on to something else!
Above is my work with counting by 5s (the start of our 5 times tables), below is J's, Zoo Boy's is on the bottom. This has dragged on too long to be ideal -- really it should have taken us just 2 weeks to get through all 6 numbers we are dealing with, but I've had to drag it out to 3 weeks due to J's birthday and all the hooplah that came along with that smack dab in the middle. I thought it would be OK to take longer, but the kids are losing interest, as is reflected in their work. J didn't put much effort into his, refusing to count past 40, and Zoo Boy abandoned trying to make the mother look like a 5 at all (although he still talks about how much he loves the Strange Family and keeps asking for more stories about them -- I may have to write a couple, because I don't think there are any more -- maybe I'll have to bring in some uncles and aunts!). One more number, then we can move on to something else!
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