While I do see a benefit to learning the prefixes, roots, etc, I think the best part of the lesson is teaching the kids that they can figure out any word if they work at it/break it down. It reminds me of dd's Montessori math, and how they learned to carry almost immediately with 4 and 5 digit numbers. They never had any fear of "big numbers".

Last edited by herenow; 12/13/11 04:46 PM.