Thomas is always one step ahead of me. Today we were looking at the calendar and talking about the 3 in the tens place for the number 30, but Thomas wanted to go further. He said, "What if there is another number, like 1 and 3 and 0? What does that make?"
This is where the child-led-learning comes in. He is asking about hundreds, we will learn about hundreds. A good Montessori teacher would have anticipated this and had the materials ready. Today, however, I had to wing it. Luckily I had already read about how to introduce the hundreds place with Decimal Cards. I had grand plans of making my own wooden decimal cards with perfectly stencilled numbers. Oh well. Note cards and crayola markers worked just as well. Thomas played with these decimal cards all evening. We even took them to dinner with us. They fit perfectly into one of our reuseable sandwich baggies. Thomas got to carry the bag into the restaurant and he played quietly wile we waited for our meal.
Jacob, of course, was observing and absorbing the information the whole time as well.
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