Carter

Time for another update of one of the children .. this time its Carter. This morning he woke me up and asked if I wanted to see a drawing of a hot air balloon. Naturally I said yes and he trucked off to the easel and drew this.


While he may not be a Picasso he has reached another mental development stage - drawing from memory something which he has not been shown how to draw.

He has taken a keen interest in Math since he was very young which of course makes his Math teacher father very happy. Below is some of his work.
This first page he did mentally (without using any manipulatives like rocks, cubes or even fingers).


This next page was difficult for him but he chose the page to do and we let him do his thing. He first started using hangers from the clothes rack as countable objects but when he realized he didn't have enough he switched to Pogs (or kapian in Chinese).

And perhaps 11-1 is 16 in another form of mathematics. He said he was trying to write 10 but got mixed up.

It's very interesting to watch the young minds develop along the paths they do.