Counting Coins

Caroline came up with a new game that we have been playing for a couple of days now. She has a stack of poker chips that she found and she uses these "coins" to "buy" her stuffed animals. Part of the game is that after she buys them, you have to run them over the pretend scanner and say "beep" or "boop" or another appropriate noise that a scanner makes. So I have been using this game to work on her math skills. She can count well so we are now working on addition and subtraction. The only slight glitch in her counting is sometimes she says six, eleven rather than six, seven but if I make her stop and think about it, she comes up with six, seven.

She is also copying letters. She made a birthday card for her grandma and asked me to write out Happy Birthday for her so she could put it on the card. She did a pretty good job of it. She has had me or Peter write out other words for her to copy.

All this just points out to me how ready for school she is. Her brain is a little sponge that is seeking the water of knowledge.

Her drawing skills took another leap recently. She is now making her shapes more distinctive and her people have aspects of the people she is trying to draw for example, Peter, Ariel, and my mother all wear glasses but I don't so she draws glasses on them but not me unless she has been reading a book because I have glasses to read with. She also has been drawing puppies and kittens which look very different from each other. I might have to take some pictures of the drawings and put them up on my picture site.

She is a clever little girl who just keeps amazing me with what she knows.

I am grateful for games that teach that don't seem like they are teaching games.