Week 1 of HE

This week we have been working on a Math Mammoth book I bought, it is teaching him tricks for mental arithmetic as the school have not taught him any. Se we practised things like doubling, doubling add one, trick of 9, trick of 8. He really struggles with Subtraction so we are working on that in the MM book. I was hoping to go with Math U See but need to brush up his addition and subtraction skills before we purchase Beta. I have to say I am loving MM, very nice books, nicely laid out, lots of practice and tips for maths too. I looked at MEP, but it seemed to hard for Theo and a bit too busy for me to wade through, so for now we are sticking with MM. Theo has also been practising his times tables.

We have been working with his SATs books from last year including the Reading, Writing and Spelling ones, so we have been practising and building the skills needed for these. We have been looking at Animals and what makes a mammal, we have been learning facts about mammals from these, they are great fun! Theo wrote out a poem about mammals and we had a chat about the duck billed platypus that is a mammal but lays eggs!! We had a Roman Banquet today since he missed the one that was at school. We had antipasti, lasagne, veg followed by bread and butter pudding. We read some facts about Rome from our encyclopaedia. Theo decorated the table and helped with all the food. Then we ended the day with a game of Cadoo which was lots of fun.