Our daily lives...

For weeks now James has been asking me what
"such and such adds up to"
and for that amount of time I have been telling him to count on his own fingers, but he just hits me and walks away in a shirty mood.

Well yesterday morning we were laying in bed, and he said to me
"Mummy, 4+4=8 doesn't it."
I said yes, and then he wanted to know a heap of other sums. So instead of telling him to work it out on his fingers, I got him to work them out on my fingers. 4+4= 2+2= 1+1= after a while we went on to 1+4= and 5+3= he was doing it really well. Then on the way to Mum's last night he was asking me again for some more sums, but because I was driving I said to him that he would have to work out on his own fingers how much that each question worked out to. And to my surprise he did. All the way to Mum's he was asking different sums and then working them out.

The this morning Mum rang, and said that he was doing the same thing in her car on the way to Kindy this morning. I'm soooo happy that after so many weeks of arguments when ever he bought the subject up, that he's now willing to work it out for himself. YAY, I think we might just be getting somewhere. Now to get out the number cards and get him to work on those.