Fun with Parchment Paper

Eating gluten-free can be expensive, especially when it comes to bread products.  Hamburger-bun molds exist for baking your own, but not at your local retail store.  That's why I use parchment paper to make my own:  Take a rectangular strip of paper and tape it around into a ring.  Voila, a hamburger bun mold!  (If you're extra nerdy, like me, measure the diameter of the burger and multiply by pi to get the length of the paper strip to use.)

But the fun doesn't end there!  

Addition in Daily Life

In the past half-year to a year, SpiderGirl has not made any particular advances in her adding and subtracting.  I have shown her a bit of grouping and borrowing.  Mostly, she has relied on the abacus for multi-digit addition and subtraction.  Since SpiderGirl has not seemed to find such computation easy, I figured that maybe she wasn't ready for this aspect of math and I didn't push it.