We played a few rounds of Snap from the Math Wizard game set from DK. It was recommended by the authors of WTM. I'm really pleased. It's a set that will grow with her, at least for a few years. Snap is a fun little game, sort of like War, only the object of the game is to spot matches (i.e. when she lays down a 3 card and I lay down a 3 as well), then yell "Snap" and take the card pile. She already knows 1-10 very well; she still consistently drops 15 each time she counts to 20, so we continue to work on that. I might try to make some 11-20 cards similar to the MW cards. The pictures seem to work well for her. She has no trouble with one-to-one correspondence, but she wasn't able to understand adding. Of course she wanted to work the hardest aspect of the set right off the bat. She tried to add 6 + 2, but she couldn't understand that you put them together. She kept wanting to keep them separate. From an ed psych pov, it was interesting to watch her at work, but the SAHM part of me didn't want the frustration to spiral out of control. I think I'll hide that portion of the game for awhile.
She is downstairs reading to DH from Phonics Pathways. She seems more comfortable in a one-on-one situation. Both of us hovering over her tends to freak her out, and who could blame her??
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