TPS: We did Math today.

After school, I ask Parker what he did that day. So far, he has answered with a complete play by play of every little thing they did. "Well...First we drew pictures, then we had circle, then we walked past the office, stopped at the cafeteria, turned around, came back, played, had quiet time, etc, etc, etc." Considering his answer in PreK was "I don't know" or "I don't want to talk about it", this is quite a change.

So yesterday I asked him the same question and he says, "Well...We did some drawing and then we did math and then we had circle and then..."

I stop him and say, "You did math? Really? What kind of math?"

Parker: "We did addition with the school days."

Me: "Huh?"

Parker: "We added the school days like this. (He held us his hand and shows a 6 with his fingers.) Ms. Heather says that we were on day 6 of school and to figure out what the next day is we just lift one figure up like this (and now he shows a 7.)"

Me: "Seriously? You learned how to add? Don't you already know how to add?"

Parker: "Well...yeah, I can add, but she taught us how to do it on our fingers!!! Isn't that super cool?"

Me: "Totally cool, Parker. Totally cool."

It's been so long since Parker added anything on his fingers that he literally had no idea this was a way to do it. He was probably doing that when he was two, if he ever really did it that way at all. The very same day just two hours later, he came to me and said, "Mom, does 10 40's equal 200?" I said, Nope. He looked up for a minute, smiled and said, "Oh, right, it's 400." And walked away.