Evan’s been trying to write all on his own these days without the help of anybody. We went to visit him in school today (today was a holiday for me, but not for the kids) and we saw a notebook that he had been writing in. They are studying how tadpoles turn into frogs and they have a bunch over very small tadpole eggs which are slowly hatching. In his book, Evan wrote:

“THEY AR GETING BIGR”

It’s very remarkable that he’s writing this all on his own and probably (maybe except for “THEY”) didn’t check with the teacher.

We also spoke to the teacher today about Evan and she said she’s noticed a big change in him in that he’ll push himself in quite a variety of areas, such as independently going to the books and writing things down, writing numbers on the board and calculating them. All this without the request from the teacher to do it. So she was very glowing about Evan’s work recently.

The other day I taught Evan how to add up numbers on a paper. I made it rather easy, but I taught him how to add the lines and how to carry a digit (for instance 1 in the ten’s column). He really enjoyed that. So we did samples such as:

1
1
3
+ 4

9

and:

21923786
+ 29103732
———–
51027518

we’re very proud of him! He was so amazed when he could add up 2 numbers which would be in the billions! 🙂