Teaching multiplication facts - help please

[Korrale4kq]

I absolutely loved reading your post!
You came up with a lot of good extension ideas for number crew. I look forward to seeing more.

[Skylark]

Thank you, Korrale4kq!

Yes, I will share more. I am trying to keep the record of things we do for the sake of my youngest boy. When I realized that unless I record my activities and ideas, I dont remember the a year down the line 

[GodLovesYou]

Korrale4kq and Skylark, Oh, my goodness, guys, "Thank you so much again." All this information is just delicious. Sorry for the delay in responding back. I've got a new baby due next month and we are considered a high risk pregnancy. My last one was born 2 months early, but thank God, this one is past that point now, but things are a wee bit crazy right now with all that's going on. 
Skylark, I looked on the Discovery Education Website, but could not find a price anywhere I looked. It seemed to slip through my fingers. They had a free trial, but I couldn't find the price. I googled it and found something about discovery plus streaming on a homeschool co-op, but it looked like it was going to run about $200.00 a year discounted, in addition to the price to be a part of the co-op. Is the $200.00 an accurate price? 
I was blown away by your blog, I favorited it and I can't wait to read more. Soooooooo much great information!!!!!  I love hands on activities and have been making tons of busy bag counting and math activities and printing worksheets, so your post were right up our alley. What fun. I really, really want to read more, so thank you for posting all the wonderful study plans. I definitely look forward to reading more.  I'm just a bit concerned about the price for the discovery streaming. Things are slightly tight for us financially  with the new baby coming. I'm hoping maybe Discovery Education is a different price than what I saw online. I'll probably get the kindle version of Marshmallow Math.  After reading Korrale4kq's post, I think we will definitely need it.
Speaking of which,  Korrale4kq, your information was awesome too. But to be honest (shame on me), I had to go through your post with a google window open in order to look up some of the terms you used. Boy, I thought I knew what I was doing until I read your post.  Regarding Subitizing, I wish my little one had been more willing to do Little Math, I bet that would have helped. He would not watch it for the longest time. It was like pulling hairs, so we shelved it and went to videos. I've pulled it out again at least for the first 10-20 numbers and he seems a bit more willing now. Hopefully, this will help with the subitizing.  Counting On seemed pretty interesting- as sort of an early form of additon. Cardinality, I found this video https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/kindergarten-counting-cardinality-lesson and read through some definitions on line and some core standards. I looked up bijection and couldn't find anything completely related to young children, and then I put in bijection and kindergarten and came across your blog. My little one should be waking up soon from his nap, but I'm going to spend some time reading through all of the info you've got posted on there. You mentioned arithmetic along with counting, or did you wait? Also, if you have any plans to post about how you taught arithmetic, please let me know. I'd love to read that blog post.
Again, everybody thank you for sharing such amazing information! It is so super helpful.

[Skylark]

GodLovesYou, I am glad it was a help!

Regarding the NumberCrews... We used them because we already had access to the videos with membership, and we also had a few DVDs of the program.

We are pretty selective in using cartoon educational videos and since we made this an exception we would usually do different hands on activities to supplement the actual videos. But honestly you can do all those activities I've listed here (http://earlyeducationessentials.com/learning-math-concepts-with-the-number-crew/)  and more with no videos necessary. These activities are really not built on videos and do not require any videos to be effective!

Also most of the activities we do, do not require expensive manipulatives or tools and we use a lot of things commonly found around the house for our math activities 

I put together a short booklet on Counting and Cardinality activities and games for young children that we've done and loved. I will have it posted in a day or two, but if you would not see it, let me know and I will send it to you directly Somehow, it helps me to have my ideas and activities organized ( with 3 children under 4 it gets busy sometimes, so organization helps  ).

[GodLovesYou]

Skylark, I'm really longing for the Number Crew Series, so I'm going to look into it further and see what we can do. My little one learns really well through dvds, so it sounds perfect for him. If we have to, we will just stick to the activities, but I really wanting to get my hands on the series.

The counting booklet would be wonderful. I will keep my eyes open for it on your blog. If you don't post it, please, definitely feel free to email it. I love learning activities. I've been on pinterest, youtube and all over the internet looking for diy math manipulatives and math crafts so we can do math activities each day. So reading and watching other Mommy's activities is such an inspiration to me! I can't wait to read what you did.

I don't know how you do it with 3 little ones under 4. I've been wondering how I'm going to handle just 2. My 19 month old and I have kept to a rigorous schedule of learning everyday since he was a wee baby and now I've got to figure out how to continue doing that and start it with a new one. My hats off to you that you are able to do it with 3. We want another one after this one, so I might end up being in the same boat you are in another year or so. It's great to see someone handling it all so successfully!

[Skylark]

GodLovesYou, if you go to my blog (http://earlyeducationessentials.com/)    and sign up for "Learning ideas for every day" on the right, it should give you the link to the document I put together for our EL counting and cardinality activities.

[Krista G]

Skylark,

I just clicked on your blog and see the beautiful blond children that I daily see on my French lessons.  I am assuming they are yours.  I did not know.  They are precious.

[Skylark]

Krista, thank you!

Yes they are mine -- two oldest.  Evangeline is 4.5 and Arthur is 3, they were 2.5 -3 and 1 at the time of filming and taking pictures for French curriculum 

Thank you for warm words!

[Skylark]

GodLovesYou, let me know if it worked for you to download my Math PDF with activities. I was trying to figure out for a while the best way to put some of the things I wanted to share with others without needing to send an email with attachment ( which being a busy mom might mean I forget to get to!), so if it worked I will be sharing more materials that way!

[Krista G]

I saw them again this morning, Skylark, and I feel endeared to them now knowing they are your children.  They are so cute.

[GodLovesYou]

Hi Skylark, I signed up, but the weirdest thing happened, when I clicked the subscribe button, nothing happened. I thought maybe I hadn't clicked it and I clicked it again. Then still nothing, I must have clicked it at least four times and then decided it was probably best to just wait and see if I got an email.  I basically just stayed on the main page and acted like nothing happened. Then later I checked my emails and I got two confirm subscription emails, but nothing else with them. I don't know if it was my computer or maybe my browser or what happened. It was really weird. Can't wait to read it though.

[Skylark]

I am curious to hear if it did not work for someone else? Because it worked beautifully and easily for me and those I asked to test it... Once I know what is the problem, I will try to fix it! May be you just need to use different browser? I used Firefox...

When you put your email in the box, you will receive a notification in your email box and by confirming it you will get a message with

link to PDF Book download. It makes it very easy for me to share it in this way, so I really hope it will work for you!

[Skylark]

Thank you, Krista!! So sweet! 

[GodLovesYou]

Hi Skylark,
I did end find that I got an email, but when I tried to download the attachment, I couldn't get it to open. We use Yahoo Mail and when I clicked on the attachment it tried to open Windows Mail (which we have), but it brought up a error message (error in downloading) before Windows Mail ever opened. It didn't show up as a pdf file, but a file extension that was .vcf. But that is all that came with that email for us. I don't know if it has to do with Yahoo Mail or if it's something else. I hope this info helps!

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