Funny Kindergarten story I had to share!

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My 5 yr old attends a local Montessori school and I am very pleased with his progress. At first I was a little put off when he would bring home subtraction, addition, multiplication and division problems. All I remembered back in kindergarten was learning my numbers and letters, and that was that! I was afraid that they were forcing these kids to learn too much too soon so I requested a conference. After spending a day in his class and observing how they were taught, I was very impressed. They use beads,rods, little bricks or whatever they call them to help them calculate. It's quite interesting and instead of memorizing multiplication tables, etc ...they are learning their numbers and math concepts by touching and feeling these manipulatives. I wish I had been taught math like that. I still remember my first grade teacher hitting my hand with a ruler for counting with my fingers!

Anyways, to get to the funny story....it seems my son is now learning the decimal system.


I asked him what he did in school on Fri. His answer- " An evil alien in my class is making me learn the decimal system. If I don't learn it, he buries me underneath beads and bricks!"