One of the things I like about Life of Fred is that the exercises leave a lot of room for control by the user. Not only can we skip questions; we can take a question and travel down that line of thought as far as we would like to go.
In Butterflies, Dr. Schmidt tells us that the set of whole numbers is infinite. That was easily reworded to ask (since we're in the "Your Turn to Play" section anyway), "How many whole numbers are there?" SpiderGirl picked a big number. Then I added 1. BatBoy jumped up and responded with an even bigger number. So I added 1. BatBoy threw out a VERY big number. Before I could respond (and I could see she had been thinking while BatBoy was jumping) SpiderGirl blurted out, "They go on forever!"
Monday, July 30, 2012
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Life of Fred
At the end of May, SpiderGirl had a little educational funding to be spent. Since I was looking into them, I thought it would be worth it to pick up the elementary set of Life of Fred. I figured she could quickly finish Butterflies and most of Cats, and then we would settle in to go through Dogs a little more slowly. Apples wouldn't be a complete waste either -- BatBoy could start there.
Avocado's Numbers
The sample booklet of my workbook, Avocado's Numbers, arrived in the mail yesterday. I was so excited, and I think my excitement must have rubbed off on SpiderGirl and BatBoy. They spent an hour or so go through the first few pages.
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