TINDERBOX

We continue to sort of slowly lurch along the path towards reading. Alex was briefly gung ho about it, and we bought the first set of BOB books and some other reading-related impulse purchases. But then she dug in her heels. She really doesn’t want to be wrong, and if she doesn’t instantly know what [...]

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Pattern blocks are still going strong. I bought a great book with the no-frills title Pattern Block Book, and Alex has found it to be very exciting. Me too, actually. It has sections devoted to simple pattern block exploration, numbers & arithmetic, geometry, measurement, algebra, and probability & statistics. Each activity is laid out on [...]

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