Fractions Old Maid

Emmie and I have been having so much fun playing Fractions Old Maid (using a deck of Fraction Cards from RightStart Math! She often wants to play the game several times in a row and asks to play it every school day. That's the beauty of playing learning games with your children: they want to play and so they're receiving the repetition needed to master skills without having to endure the drudgery of traditional worksheets! Watch this short video to see how fun and easy it is to play this math game:




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Practicing Good Manners

We all want our children to have good manners and we often expect them to have good manners when we're in public but how often do we practice those manners? In our home, we have found that practicing the behaviors that we would like to see in pubic is foundational to success in this area.

Here's a quick little video showing how we practice manners and have fun at the same time!