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07/14/2004 Archived Entry: "logic and water"

On our way to our last Mommy and Me this morning, Tabitha exercised her logic skills, which always pleases me. We had picked up donuts to take for mom snack and I got Tabitha and I a bag of donut holes to split. I took 6 for myself and gave her the other six, but she gave me one of hers. She asked me how many donuts I had not including the one I gave her. I told her 6 and then said we started with 12 and I had 6 so what's 12 minus 6. She said 6 and I said, so, how many donuts did you have? She thought for a moment and said "Five, because I gave you one." I love that she was able to figure that out as opposed to just focusing on the 12-6 part. Thinking skills will only serve her well in life and I like to see her using them.

Anyway, we did have our last Mommy and Me class this morning, though we have one last field trip next week. We had our water party where a few pools and two sprinklers are set up for the kids to play in. Tabitha had an absolute blast, even though she complined of grass being where it shouldn't in her bathing suit, lol. I took loads of pics today. We gave our instructor her gift today and I think she liked it. I had gone to Glass Act and picked out a pretty candle in a glass candle holder and they engraved the words "Thank You" on one side and "Love, Tabitha & Family" on the other. I think it came out really nice. I figured she didn't need anymore things that say teacher or have an apple on it. She can at least use the candle.

I ordered a phonics book for lessons today. I've been researching spelling programs for a long time and never did find anything that appealed to me. So I decided to go back to just basic phonics to improve her spelling skills. Phonics is how I taught her to read, and that was a great success, let's hope it works for spelling as well. It's a series of four books, but I only ordered one so I can make sure it works for us before getting the others. I also want to look into a unit study on the American flag. We saw the taking down of the flag at Disneyland yesterday (they do a ceremony everyday) and the concept of respect and why they folded the flag a certain way were just above Tabitha. She didn't get it. She knows the flag salute and that we stand and remove hats for it and the National Anthem (thanks to sporting events, of all things), but it's the why that is so hard to explain. So, the American flag is next on my subjects to research.