Lilly likes food and Shawn likes to count

Lilly likes peanut butter just as much as Shawn and I do.  In fact, she tries to eat it off the toast first!

It's so hard to reach the middle!

Shawn worked very hard helping me start organizing the guest room / craft room / my office.  When we both were ready for a snack, Shawn found a box of teaching materials and got very excited  about using them himself.

First we did an intro to fractions using a plastic hotdog (1 whole), hotdog bites (1/10ths), and hotdog slices (1/100ths) in a bun that was labeled in 1/10ths. He liked the fact it was a hotdog, but was more interested in stacking the pieces than the fractions they represented. That's ok, he understood the super basic idea that fractions are pieces that make up a whole.

Lately, Shawn's been really curious about counting to 100.  He still gets a little mixed up, so I got out a number grid and decided to combine a counting lesson with our snack. First, he counted by 1s by putting Cheerios over each number. Then, we replaced some of the Cheerios with chocolate chips and counted by 10s, then 5s, and finally 2s. While we had every other number covered in Cheerios & chocolate chips, we talked about odd and even numbers. Shawn loves patterns and caught on quickly. (Who wouldn't when there's chocolate involved?!)

Counting by 10s

 Counting by 5s

  Hamming it up with hotdogs