Today we shelved our books. Normally our school week is Monday thru Thursday. But today was the day we needed to go grocery shopping, so food uspured textbook scooling for the day.
But we did do some schooling. We practiced our times tables. Such as, when I got canned tuna, I asked Jordan to put 10 cans in the cart. She counted the cans by two. And then figured out how many times she had to count by 2s to get to 10. She figured out that she counted 5 times... so therefore 2 x 5 was 10. We expanded on that by figuring up how many times she had to count by 2 if we had 14 cans, or 20 cans, or 8 cans, etc....
I know it was fairly basic... but it was a good example of how multiplication tables work. It was also a great opportunity to review counting by other numbers, such as 3s and 5s, and example how those numbers fit into the times tables as well.
We also did comparison shopping in pricing. We learned to compare a certain unit of something, such as turkey breast. Boneless turkey breast was $.21 an ounce. Bone in turkey breast was $.10 per ounce. Jordan learned that it's important to compare prices so we can get the most for the money we spend and get a great deal.
We listened to books on tape in the car, and repeated a poem... so there was literature squezzed in there.
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