Math, Engineering, and Critical Thinking

Part of her curriculum included several educational games that have been fun and have done a great job of helping her make connections with her bookwork. Inchimals, Brain Box ABC, and Tegu are three of them.

We have fallen in love with Inchimals! She starts out by laying the blocks out in order, 12 -1. Each block has the numeral on one end and the value shown in dots on the other, two sides have an image of an animal and the other two sides have measurements in inches. There is a spiral bound wipe off book used for solving math problems. She matches the animal image to the rod and writes the corresponding numbers in the blanks, she stacks them together and then counts the inches to arrive at the answer,  then writes the value in dots in another blank. Its a great way to learn math concepts.

Engineering is being introduced by these amazing little wooden blocks, called Tegu, that have magnets in them. Each day there is a model to copy and each week she is asked to invent something new. Today, she improved upon the model she was to copy. True Ellie style.

Brain Box ABC teaches critical thinking. She stares at a card for ten seconds, measured by the hourglass, and then answers the questions on the back of the card. In the following picture she answered all of them correctly, which is normal for her.