M just bounced onto my lap and asked if I wanted to hear him count to 100. I didn’t answer honestly (no dear, I want to keep exploring digital scrapbooking when I should be planning homeschool) but I smiled and said sure.
He recited the numbers with drama and glee.
What is cool about this performance, is that up until now, M could recognize and work with the symbols, but naming numbers was an algebraic jumble. “2 less than two tens,” was his standard way of naming 18 for instance.
Last August I decided to set the Miquon sheets aside for a while, and work on math through the literature of the Living Math lesson plans. I did make him use a wrap-up for keep cementing addition and subtraction, but he didn’t to wield a pencil. Last week he asked me to quiz him, so I read him the last worksheet we attempted and he answered each one cheerfully, although in his usual “1 less than 2 tens.” method.
This morning’s recitation was also his idea. So I think I can safely add in some more Miquon activities now, if I either do them aurally, or serve as amanuensis.
But I will miss his cute way of naming numbers, it lets me see how he thinks.