nina loves math!

ah, it makes me so happy! she asks for math problems to solve nearly every day. i had been writing them out for her, but it was hard to keep up, so i found a website with worksheets i could print out for free. it's been fun, and they have all kinds of nifty ideas i'd never thought of! yesterday when it was snowing she did a worksheet that required her to make a bar graph (color in the boxes) of fruit that billy banana had picked from his garden, one that had her identify which number of two was bigger, and then which was smaller, using numbers up to 100, and one that showed a calender with different symbols for the weather on each day (snowman, umbrella, sun, etc), and asked her how many days was it sunny? what was the weather like on the 17th? etc. she breezed through them but had a lot of fun. i also printed out two addition worksheets of 20 problems each. the first one with no carrying was a breeze, and the second one with carrying was a bit harder at first, but she's really gotten the hang of it so quickly. i guess we'll be doing subtraction with borrowing soon. the carrying and borrowing are second grade stuff! if she keeps up this pace, she'll be done with 3rd grade math before she goes into the 1st grade. well, i'm not going to worry about it right now, maybe she'll lose some of this zest for math and move on to something else before she gets crazy far ahead. and if not, the school has been open to working something out on their end. we shall see!