SCM Living Math- Addition Tables

Hi Erika,

Begin with 1+1 through 1 + 10 up to 10 + 10 so that the child will be adding up to 20 on that 10s table.

Best,

Richele

Hi Erika,

Charlotte Mason expressed that children should be able to add freely up to 20 before moving on. You will be working with “reducing” money (changing pennies to dimes) before introducing the term carrying in a written format with pure number (see points 30-33).  If you look at the handbook, you will basically be taking a 1A/ or our 2nd grade student through a year of work beginning with the addition tables and ending at about p. 37.  This is always dependent on the individual child as there is no arbitrary level at which we are holding children with a Charlotte Mason education.

You will be consistently giving work in the newest concept, review, and mental math with about five minutes of table work.  So, as a table is learned, review work in the back numbers is also given. Lessons are still 20 minutes at this point.  Some mothers who are taking older children back to learn their tables are going from a few concrete right into written tables since their children are adept at writing.  See how it goes in the concrete to gauge how quickly to move on.

I’ll need to refer you to either Sonya’s blog articles on sloyd and handicraft here at SCM or Brittney McGann’s extensive research at Charlotte Mason Poetry as I have not gone as in-depth. If you look at p. 75 of the handbook, children were completing five models per term in grades 2 and 3. That means about one every two weeks. There were other handicrafts/work as well so you should decide based on what you would like for your family and how often you want to schedule this.

All my best,

Richele

Here are a few blog posts on handicrafts:

https://simplycharlottemason.com/blog/teaching-handicrafts-subject-by-subject-part-7/

https://simplycharlottemason.com/blog/series/homeschool-handicrafts/