I was going to post this in a new thread, but it relates...

Yeah, this is review week here for our DS in second (the homework was 1 + 0 = ?, 1 - 1 = ?, 2 + 0 = ? , 2 - 2 = ?, ...) Ugh.

However, this year is getting off to a better start. DS went to the teacher and told her that he wanted to do long division. She gave him a hand written sheet with a four digit number divided by a one digit number. He did it, showed his work, and then did the multiplication to check his answer. Said it was "too easy."

This is a big step for us: #1 DS is feeling more comfortable expressing his himself and #2 the teacher responded immediately. We were encouraged to see that.

JB