It should have been a fun lesson today as I am on something of a Mini Holiday this week with all my classes being cancelled, so this morning I had ample time to prepare a wonderful lesson.
I had some pictures with numbered sections. I'd present a problem (most subtraction) and then he had to colour in the answer. He was supposed to come out with a pig in the end. It started well, but degenerated quickly as Jonty decided to switch his brain off. He has a tendency to do that - even laughs about it, telling me to put him into gear. Unfortunately his gear today was "reverse".
The worst was thinking that 8 - 4 is 8. And worse still, he thought this because apparently because I (me!) told him so. I may have told him that 8 is 4 more than 4... but still. Funny how he always has to blame someone. Wonder where he gets that from...?
Fortunately there was some written work which seemed to jump start his brain and so he was fully functional for a couple of games afterwards. We did a fun puzzle and other than muddling plus and minus signs he did well. I think I might create a few more versions of that one.
I had a cow version of the pig game and even though it was not scheduled I did that too, and he did just fine. I still think its just the mental arithmetic that freaks him out. I hope so, because if that is the case then with practise he'll get it. And all I need to do is persevere.
He ended off the lesson bellowing for his English class please.
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