knitgrl Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 (edited) DS6, who rarely picks up a pencil on his own, spent 20 minutes on ONE math problem today. He was supposed to color the same color the little pictures of a group of 8 toys that were the same. In the group there were 2 teddy bears, and he decided to color the left paws yellow and the bellies orange, each ear was a different color, etc....oh and he drew for each bear a quiver of arrows and "ice bombs". It should have taken about three minutes to complete, but...he was getting fine motor skills in, so that's good, too. Edited August 19, 2019 by knitgrl 16 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 One of mine used to turn every number he wrote in his math workbook into a little picture of something :) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janeway Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 That is very cute! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 I have one like that, too. She also did not read until she was in 5th grade -- and I shudder to think of how she would've felt if she'd been in a class full of reading peers. Homeschool has been a good thing for us. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 Reminds me of DS#2 along about 5th/6th grade, when many of his MUS math workbook pages had stick figure ninjas amongst the math problems -- hiding behind them, vaulting over them, dropping down from the ones above, arming, attacking... It's a wonder that actual math ever got done some days with so much ninja warfare going on... 😂 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knitgrl Posted August 19, 2019 Author Share Posted August 19, 2019 16 minutes ago, alisoncooks said: I have one like that, too. She also did not read until she was in 5th grade -- and I shudder to think of how she would've felt if she'd been in a class full of reading peers. Homeschool has been a good thing for us. I am certain that if this child had been brought up in a typical American household with few books and lots of screen time, the public school would have been pressuring us to have him diagnosed as ADHD. He has lots of what I consider typical boy energy, but he can also sit and pore over Calvin & Hobbes for an hour at a time. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 We have a notebook somewhere for SoTW 4-illustrated with snakes as historical figures. 7 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenecho Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 My kid sometimes does it with spelling words (makes pictures out of the letters and such). I just let him because, even though it takes forever, I think it helps...it's massive amount of brain attention on the letters and something he can remember. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zejh Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 My daughter can do mental math easily, while struggling with writing numbers, but she'll draw the numbers different sizes and have stories about them. (My big regret this past year (kindergarten) was that I gave in to the once-a-week nanny wanting to "help teach" while I was out running errands. She would ride on DD to write the numbers exactly right, which kind of made for a big set-back in willingness to do almost any academic work for a while... *sigh* Said nanny is moving away this fall...) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmasc Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 When my DS8 is doing less than/greater than in math, he draws every single sign with very detailed alligator teeth. I think it’s chomping the numbers 😂 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 On 8/20/2019 at 8:13 PM, Æthelthryth the Texan said: That should totally be marketed as a supplement. The one thing that would hold my ds's interest in history, LOL. Actually, quite a few people would by that book, I bet!! You could use an old history in the public domain, anything pre 1923 or 80% of the works from 1924 to 1963 have expired copyright, here is an explanation about the 1924 - 1963 books. https://lifehacker.com/access-millions-of-free-books-added-to-the-public-domai-1837073153 It could be the next big thing, herp history!! 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 My kids used to draw in their numbers and letters with various animals and things when they were younger...now they are just get er done, but they do still draw in their off time, just not on their school work. They get their artistic abilities from my husband's side, if I drew on my work it would just look messy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 On 8/19/2019 at 5:20 PM, dmmetler said: We have a notebook somewhere for SoTW 4-illustrated with snakes as historical figures. Yes, the world definitely needs herp history or a herp history supplemental drawing book!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terabith Posted August 25, 2019 Share Posted August 25, 2019 On 8/21/2019 at 11:52 PM, ElizabethB said: Actually, quite a few people would by that book, I bet!! You could use an old history in the public domain, anything pre 1923 or 80% of the works from 1924 to 1963 have expired copyright, here is an explanation about the 1924 - 1963 books. https://lifehacker.com/access-millions-of-free-books-added-to-the-public-domai-1837073153 It could be the next big thing, herp history!! I bet Susan Wise Bauer would go for that!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bensonduck Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 We have pages and pages of math here with little stick figures kicking soccer balls into goals. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purpleowl Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 I thought of this thread today when my 5yo wrote the answer to a subtraction problem as 1, then decided that the 1 was a tree and needed to have a monkey hanging on it...and there was a worm on the tree too...and the monkey didn't say "please," but the worm still gave the monkey a banana...and...and...and... Meanwhile I'm sitting there thinking, you have six more problems to answer and I really need them to be finished before you're old enough for a driver's license, child. 😂 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 On 8/19/2019 at 4:20 PM, dmmetler said: We have a notebook somewhere for SoTW 4-illustrated with snakes as historical figures. This is the sort of anecdote that would be great in your counselor letter.... Regards, Kareni 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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