Just don’t tell them it is homework. I got these manipulatives to help Andy with his homework. I didn’t even know what manipulatives were let alone being to pronounce the word because it’s not really a word but some “new math” term. Anyway, Ryan thought these were cool and then proceeded to guide Andy through an hour or so of problems. (Yes, Ryan is the younger one.) The problem is that the little “ones” are small and pop easily in the mouth. Soon I found these critters all over the house and only a few left in the box. And of course you cannot buy just the “ones” but have the buy the whole set again. We stopped using it. Which then just outs me in that this photo is not from today. But I am still working on reorganizing my photos in Lightroom. I thought I had over 22,000 but have whittled it down to under 8,000 once I got rid of all the duplicates, triplicates and quadlicates (OK, I know it’s not a word.) that iPhoto made. I still a few hundred to figure out dates for and made a couple hundred to find originals. What a mess!
That’s a fun shot. I love your journaling. I need to organize my photos, too. Yikes! It’s overwhelming to think of it!
neat that they love palying with this and not even knowing it is “HOMEWORK”
That is great…I just cleaned out my photos too…I was running out of harddrive space!!!
Cari
Sounds like a lot of work! I hope you’re backing up as you go!
Wow, that looks intense. Very interesting.
Looks like fun. Organizing photos not to fun
I remember the first time I heard the word manipulatives when DS started kindergarten. That kindergarten teacher spoke a whole foreign language to me. That’s a nice interaction photo!
I’ve never heard of those before. If they are helping get homework done they can’t be bad. Nice shot.
Travis
LOL!!! :) You are a funny writer! :) I totally remember the hundreds, tens and ones… Crazy…They are called manipulatives now? Why don’t they just use wives instead of blocks… ;) hehe J/K
glad you are getting your photos organized! that is the very worst part about digitaL! and then not knowing if your computer will crash and lose them all is the other bad part!
great shot!
tara
How fun!! Playing while learning. That is something I need to do, is clean up all my pics!!
It looks like they are having a lot of fun!
I need to organize my photos too. I just really need to and I have been puting it off forever and the pile just keeps getting bigger!
I love that they had fun and didn’t know it included the “H” word LOL!! Great capture!