Friday, October 28, 2011

multi-tasking

Josiah has decided it is time to teach himself how to count to 100.  He can manage pretty well if he has a 100 chart in front of him, but not so well without it yet.  Today, I was reading a book to the older kids about a city in China, filled with locations that I can't pronounce.  It was at this moment Josiah decided to start practice his counting.  Our lesson sounded something like this:

Mom (attempting to pronounce Weihuaninggong): "Major Relgious Sites: Wee--xhgiahtome--gong! Imperial Residence"

Josiah: "26, 27, 28, 29..."

Mom: "Watchtowers top the many buildings of the tree-lined avenues of... (30!)... Changchun. 

Josiah: "31, 32,...,37, 38, 39..."

Mom: Most of these buildings were built by the Japanese (40!) during their military occupation of this region..."

All the way to 100.

So now I can teach geography and preschool math at the same time.  But then again, I think we might giggle too much.

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