Addition Strip Board

Here's yet another activity Logan uses for practicing addition...
it's called an addition strip board and I printed it out here:
http://www.montessorimaterials.org/Math/AdditionStripBoard.pdf

School holidays start next week, so many of our weekly
activities will be off (kindergym, dance class, soccer practice
and games). We'll be watching another girl for much of the
break and have plans to get together with a number of
friends while they're off from school. We're looking forward
to that! When school resumes (July 20th) Logan will be in
first grade. (Australian students are only mid-way through
the year, but I decided to follow the American school year
since eventually we'll go back to the U.S.)

Oh--and I've been posting a lot about various activities
we've been doing, but I just wanted to say that this only
gives a snippet of what we do during the day. Many mornings
we have some sort of activity on (kindermusik, kindergym,
dance class, class with another homeschooling family, etc.)
Logan and Delenn spend a lot of time playing together outside
(looking for lizards, playing with Boomer, looking at rocks,
climbing, jumping, painting, and all that) and inside (Logan loves
his legoes and Delenn spends lots of time playing with her "sweet
street" doll house stuff, animals, etc.) They will often
disappear for well over an hour into their rooms (together
or separately) to play quietly on their own. We still
generally have quiet time when Elora is sleeping (so
everyone has time to themselves). We do schoolwork every
day, but it just slides in between all the other playing,
reading, eating and living (chores, changing nappies, etc.)
we do! The kids do watch a bit of TV and/or play on
the computer, but not until the very end of the day just
before Dad comes home.

Anyway, I just wanted to mention that because I don't
want anyone to think these activities fill up our entire
day. It's just that they're the new things I can share with
you all.