Since the trip to Florida KAte has decided she hates math. From love to hate in the blink of an eye. The lessons are a little more challenging now but nothing she can't handle or do well. She just has decided. As equally surprising she has decided she loves science. Pre- Florida trip she hated science. Her hate was unfounded since she loved the projects we did, they were just not called science projects. Now she ADORES science.
This has made life more challenging for me. I have to pay a little more attention to Kate's mood and need for breaks. I tend to break up her subjects more and put a little math here and there. I have gotten creative in where or how we approach the Math work. Sometimes it is simple a matter of doing it first so we can move on to other things.
Last week Kate in the middle of math and just had a melt down. Technically the melt down had nothing to do with math. It was trigger by her foot falling asleep. But "it was all Math's fault" was her battle cry.
Of course dear, Math made you sit on your foot and cut off the circulation. not.
Thankfully I kept my sarcasm to myself and convinced her to follow me downstairs for a snack... and then outside to chalk-out our math work. It worked. A little spike in the blood sugar and some brightly colored chalk and we were back on track. Whew.
This week it is all about jokes. When she finishes her Math work I teach her a new joke. She then repeats her joke to EVERYONE we see that day. She loves it when people laugh - she just beams.
