Okay, so our dining room isn’t exactly formal in its usual state, because we have four kids and we homeschool (besides not being exactly the formal dining room types), so formality probably isn’t what we’re sacrificing here, but we’ve put up a number line at Sim’s head level in our dining room.
So, yeah, that stuff gathered on the pew isn’t exactly formal, and that stuff-gathering happened long before the number line arrived…
In any case, Simeon has a somewhat fluid idea of numbers at this point, usually recognizing that there are place for hundreds, tens, ones, etc., but happily placing 50, 15, 25, 35, and 45 in that order, because he’s seeing just the 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 – the 5 is incidental since it occurs in all of the numbers, right? I’m not worried about this – I’ve seen it in other kids, and it’s corrected itself with a bit of time – but I thought it might be a good idea to put up a number line so that I could point to the numbers in context. Sim has already noticed that the evens are blue and the odds are red, and will happily use it to count to 100.
The number line won’t stay up forever, and I imagine (though I can’t be certain) that as an empty nester I’ll miss the days that I needed a number line in my dining room.
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