Twenty, the Most Beautiful of All Beautiful Numbers

Today, the students were excited to be delving deeper into the number twenty.

Though most of them know how to count beyond a hundred, it's still difficult for some of them to visualize just what these numbers LOOK like.

That was the purpose of our deeper studying.

And, aside from what was going on throughout the day, I got to apply some of the knowledge I've been learning from outside sources to the kids. Especially Dontay.

Ever since getting his glasses, he has been SO much more interested in putting in the work effort to learn. His writing has marvelously improved, and his focus is so much more prevalent than ever before.

I was also reminded today about one of the kids' favorite games: "Walk, Walk, Walk"

Sort of a "Simon Says" sort of game, it involves a "caller", and maybe a "watcher" or two. The Caller tells the children when to walk and when to freeze. when the caller calls out freeze, it is their job, with help from the watchers, to call out the ones who did not stop moving on the freeze command.

I was reminded about the article concerning outside classes and the importance of play when dealing with the children's excess energies. "Walk Walk Walk" is another way to serve this purpose, and a way I had forgotten about entirely!