Noah's Ark for the Very Young

For our Biblical History for the Very Young we have been learning about Noah. Here is what we have been reading, discussing and doing.

Readings:

• Genesis 6-9
• In the Days of Noah
• Noah's Ark Noah's Flood Lots of Water, Lots of Mud
• Torah Explorers ~ Noah

Discussion: {from Torah Explorers Torah portion for children}{Torah by, the way, is the teachings and instructions found in the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, and a portion is just a portion or section of reading from the Torah ~ the first 5 books are foundational to understanding the rest of the Bible!}

Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. (Genesis 6:9)

Noah walked with God.

What does this mean?

The word “walk” in Hebrew is “halak” and means “to walk with the feet, or to walk or go in a certain direction with your heart and mind.”

This was the case with Noah.

He didn't walk like we do when we take a walk to the park together, but he walked spiritually (in his heart) and walked a Torah-obedient lifestyle. In Psalm 119:1, David talks about the blessings of walking with Yhvh-God, following His ways and not walking in the path of sin:

Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law [torah] of Yahveh. ~Psalm 119:1

You see, there are always two ways to walk: we can walk in the path that leads upward [walking in Yhvh's Torah] . . . OR we can walk in the path that leads downward [in the path of darkness] . . . and against Yhvh’s Torah-instructions of righteousness. Each of us has to make the choice as to which direction we will walk.

Noah was a just man.

Just” is the Hebrew word “tzaddiyq” meaning “a lawful or righteous man.” Noah followed the Torah—Yhvh’s instructions in righteousness.

Noah kept Yhvh-God’s commands completely—he did what Yhvh told him to do!

Is it possible to be just and perfect while NOT walking in a Torah lifestyle and while NOT having a faith in and a love for Yhvh? Noah kept himself separate and unspotted from the world around him spiritually. He and his family lived set-apart (holy) or kadosh (Hebrew for “holy”) lives apart from the evil and immorality of the world around them.

The Torah teaches us how to live that holy, set-apart life.

The story of Noah is the story of Yhvh’s redemption or salvation of mankind. In the Bible we see a several-step pattern of how Yhvh saves man from his sin:

1. Like Noah, man must find grace (preciousness, favor, kindness) in the eyes of Yhvh (Genesis 6:8).
2. This favor or love of Yhvh for man attracts man to Yhvh causing man to have faith in him.
3. Man’s faith in Yhvh leads man to love Yhvh and to begin to trust and obey Yhvh’s instructions—the Torah (Genesis 6:9, 2 Peter 2:5 and John 14:15).
4. This results in man living a set-apart (holy) life so that he is not following the evil world around him (Genesis 6:9–12).
5. This results in the righteous man being delivered from Elohim’s judgments upon the wicked (Genesis 6:13-14).

Are you living a set-apart or righteous life and walking in obedience?

Yeshua (Jesus) is our spiritual ARK of safety from the judgment of Yhvh-God against the wicked in that final day when He will judge all the wicked of the world! We can rest safely and find deliverance in this truth if we walk with Him like Noah did!

Activities:

We apply the principles of Torah in our everyday life from what we wear, to what we eat. Instructions on how to live a life pleasing to the Father is all in Torah and every NT command is based off of Torah.

It it were not below zero degrees outside, we would have taken a walk and talked about this as we walked along the way, but we are staying warm inside.

Instead, we built a paper model of Noah's Ark:

Noah's Ark Paper Model from Answers in Genesis

And made a Flood in a Jar.

We pretended that the sprayer was the rain and I asked Mali how many days it rained (40). Then we shook the jar to simulate the shifting plates, earthquakes and fountains of the deep opening up. Our flood waters are still settling ~ so, I will share in another post what happened after the flood. We will also create a fossil in our next lesson and talk about what happened to the dinosaurs.

Rainbow Bucket

We added a rainbow of colorful pipe cleaners to make the rainbow and cotton balls for the clouds. Mali carries his army guys around in it (since that was the bucket that stored them).

Noah's Ark Lapbook

Rainbow Lapbook

Mali is reading the lapbooks that we made for the letter N and letter R to the kitten. I though this was so sweet and I took the opportunity to explain that not every kind of cat was on the ark, but only one kind of cat (probably a wild cat kind and not a domestic cat).

Tot School Activities

Rainbow Bead Sorting . . .

Fine motor skills at work. :-)

. . . and Rainbow Bead Stringing

You can read more about our study of Noah and the Great Flood in our Biblical History Series.

Also in this series:

1. Creation for the Very Young
2. Adam and Eve {and their descendants} for the Very Young

Noah, the Ark and the Great Flood

Here is what we have been up to for in our study of Noah in Biblical History:

Readings:

• Chronological Bible: Genesis 6 & 7
• Adam to Messiah: "The Flood" and "After the Flood"
• The Victor Journey Through The Bible: Noah Builds the Ark (p. 14-15)
• Genesis: Finding Our Roots: Unit 3 "Book of Noah" and Unit 4 "Book of the Sons of Noah"
• Adam and His Kin: Ch. 8 "Noah" Chapter 9 "The Year 1656"& Chapter 10 "The Great Flood."
• The Greenleaf Guide to Old Testament History: Discussion questions
• Sheepfold Gleanings: Noach/Noah
• In the Days of Noah ~ From the back of the book:

What was it like In the Days of Noah? Often portrayed as a quaint story for children, the Biblical account of the Flood of Noah's day is the account of God's judgment, power, and love that changed the face of the earth forever! Part 1 is the story of Noah's struggle to obey God, preach His word, survive the Flood, and begin life in the "new world". Part 2 answers 47 questions about the Flood such as:

What was it like for Noah and his family before the Flood?

Were there dinosaurs on the Ark?

How long did the flood really last?

What does Mt. St. Helens tell us about the Flood?

Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man" (Luke 17:26). As we look around us today we see violence, corruption, and a worldwide anti-God movement just as it was in the days of Noah!

Audio:

• What in the World? Track 4 "The Flood"(7:23)
• Digging Deeper Track 1: "The Bible and Sources" (9:36), Track 2: "Even More Sources" (10:09), Track 3: "Local Vs. Worldwide Flood" (3:24), Track 4: "Life on the Ark" (11:47), Track 5: "The Construction of the Ark" (28:39)

Video:

• The Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark
• The Discovery of Noah's Ark: The Best Evidence
• Noah's Ark: Thinking Outside the Box
• Flood Geology
• Mount St. Helens: Explosive Evidence for Catastrophe

From Noach/Noah by Carl and Julie Parker at Sheepfold Gleanings:

The story of Noah is about real men and women, their families and their children. Not only is this story true, but it is a prophetic story foreshadowing future events. These life accounts are stories within stories on physical and spiritual levels. Thus the study of Torah is very descriptive and illuminating for all in pursuit of their Messiah. He is revealed in every story, and this story of Noah and his family is no exception.

Highlights from our lesson:

• The men of Noah's day were very wicked.
• Noah was righteous and walked with God and found grace in the eyes of God.
• Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japeth.
• God commanded Noah to build an Ark.
• The ark was 30 cubits high, 50 cubits high, 300 cubits long ~ a cubit is about 18 inches, so about 45 feet high, 75 feet wide, 450 feet long. It had three stories, with each story being about 15 feet high. There was one window which was one cubit (18 inches) high.
• Noah built the ark and took his wife, his sons, and their wives into the ark.
• God brought pairs of SEVEN of every CLEAN animal onto the ark and TWO of every UNCLEAN animal. {Even Noah knew what animals were clean and unclean before the Mosaic law!}

Timeline review and Character Event Cards

• The Flood came after Noah after they had been on the Ark seven days. {Imagine the scoffs from people during that time!}
• The Flood came as the floodgates of heaven and the fountains of the deep opened up.
• It rained forty days and forty nights.
• The flood waters covered the entire earth including the highest mountains.

Notebooking pages from Grapevine's Stick Figuring Through the Bible.

• The waters were upon the earth 150 days.
• Every living thing that was on the earth died.
• On the 7th day of the 7th month, the Ark rested on mountains of Ararat.
• The waters decreased until the mountain tops were seen on the 1st day of the 10th month
• At the end of 40 days, Noah opened the window and sent a dove to see if the waters were ababted, but the dove returned having not found a resting place
• Noah sent a Raven that to and fro to search for land.
• After another 7 days, Noah sent the dove again and it returned with an olive leaf
• After another 7 days, Noah sent the dove again and it did not return.
• In the year 601 on the 1st day of the month, the waters were dried up and Noah removed the covering of the Ark.
• In the 2nd month on the 27th of the month, the earth was dried and Noah and his family with the animals left the ark.
• Noah kept a detailed log as the record of his journey.
• God makes a promise in 8:22: While the earth remains, that seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
• God makes a covenant with Noah and future generations to never again flood the earth.
• God set the rainbow in the sky as a token of the everlasting covenant.

Topical Studies:

What is a mabbul? {a hebrew word meaning "flood of water" and this implies a worldwide cataclysmic flood, and is a different word that is used for local floods elsewhere in the bible}

Ignorant Scoffers {the apostle Peter said that in the last days people will scoff at Noah's flood and deny that it ever happened. That they will even be "willingly" ignorant!}

What Does Seven Mean? {7 signifies completion. God rested on the 7th day, the rain began after they were on the ark for 7 days, God told Noah to take 7 of each clean animal, 7 Sabbaths of years, 7 fat/lean cows, 7 years of plenty/famine, 7 priests carried the Ark of the Covenant, 7 days in the Feast of Passover and Tabernacles, 7 angels, 7 plagues, 7 bowls, etc.}

Where is the Ark? {lost somewhere in the mountains of Ararat, probably buried under snow and ice, although past stories have mentioned sightings and contact with the Ark}

Noah's Ark Paper Model

1:290 scale model of Noah's Ark, based on the Graeco-Roman cubit of 18"

Conceptual design of Noah’s Ark by researcher Tim Lovett

We have five of these model Arks "floating" around our house. And the kids have had fun with them, from playing with them to turning them into a piggy bank.

Also in this series:

1. Introduction to Biblical History
2. The First Week of History
3. Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve and The Fall
4. Cain and Abel, Seth to Noah, Corruption of Man

You can also see how we apply the lessons of Noah in our everyday life in my post on Noah in Biblical History for the Very Young.

Next up: After the flood, the descendants of Noah and the tower of Babel.

Homeschool Highlights #8

There has been lots of behind-the-scenes activity going on here, but when I go to bed at a reasonable time, I don't get much blogging time in. During the last couple weeks I have been going to bed early and it feels great. One night I even fell asleep with Eliana at 8:00. I am glad because Dylan is not feeling well right now and it is sure to get around. Needless, to say, I want to go to bed early tonight. :-)

So, real quick, here is what we have been up to:

Plugging away with our Instant Challenges.

Nathan and Dylan are on Lesson 3 in Land Animals of the 6th Day and have notebooking pages to finish up for this week. They are learning about the families: Ursidae (bears), Mustelidae (weasel family), Mephitidae (skunk), and Procyonidae (racoon). Their lessons include reading, narration, notebooking, tracking and mapping exercises and an experiment.

Nathan and Dylan are on their last week of Y basketball and Nathan started practicing on a traveling basketball league 2 nights a week. Also, Jordan and Nathan started on a dodgeball league and they began to practice this week and volleyball also will start with a clinic for Nathan and Dylan on Wednesday! (phew)

We wrapped up our study of Noah and we are beginning our next Biblical History lesson: After the flood, the descendents of Noah and the tower of Babel.

We finished lesson 17 in Prepare and Pray (chapter 17 in Swiss Family Robinson).

Mali has been learning about earthworms and what lives underground for the letters E and U. He has one more lesson in our Alphabet Fun: the letter O. And then we will take a break as I gear up to begin Kindergarten with him.

Elli has been doing a few tot school activities here and there, but I am taking a break from formal Tot School. I bought some tot trays from Oriental Trading and am building up my Tot Supplies, so that I can have a fresh outlook and new start for Tot School as Elli turns 3 next month.

We are still doing ASL. I ordered a whole new set of Signing Time dvds and we are progressing through them and enjoying them very much!

I also have a new math program for Jordan on the way. (I can't wait to meet Fred!)

We are starting the Madsen Method for Language Arts for all my boys. The MM is a "complete, fully scripted, evidence-based, field-tested, non-consumable, penmanship, spelling, grammar, composition and reading, use-it-with-all-students curriculum based on systematic and explicit phonics taught via neurological response instruction." Our "box" arrived today and all I can say is, "Wow!" I have committed to teaching Part One, which will take 6-9 months. With this curriculum, you can teach in 8 years what other curricula teach in K-12 and is based on our forefather's method of instruction. Since this is longer than our typical 6 week review period, I will probably share what we are doing as we go and before I write my final review.

Other products on the review front are Maestro Classics, Kinderbach, (preschool piano lessons for Mali and Elli) and Worship Guitar. (I am finally learning to play the guitar!)

On Luke's front:

My very scheduled husband has the boys on a new schedule in the mornings and they are up early for:

1. Read the Bible (A proverb and a chapter a day on their own)
2. Think of Me book
3. Amazing Race (multiplication facts)
4. Independent studies (3 or 4 subjects per child)

They usually have this all done before he walks out the door (and sometimes before I wake up). :-) This makes my day so much easier and a guarantee that we get the basics done each day. {In other words, I get to do all of the fun, creative and messy stuff, lol}

At night, Luke is reading Life in the Great Ice Age for History (he just finished chapter 3). He is also reading Boyhood and Beyond: Practical Wisdom for Becoming a Man (1-2 chapters every other night). Then we listen to the CJB audio Bible, where we listen to the whole Bible in two years: the Torah twice, the Prophets and Writings once, and the New Testament twice in about 14 minutes a day. (We are on Genesis 37, Judges 1, and Matthew 24).

Posts coming up:

1. Noah, the Ark, and the Great Flood
2. Noah's Ark for the Very Young
3. E is for Earl the Earthworm
4. U is for Underground
5. What Jordan has been up to for Science
6. Prepare and Pray Lesson 17: A New Sister
7. A Review of Maestro Classics: The Tortoise and the Hare
8. Instant Challenge #5: Leaning Tower Solutions
9. Instant Challenge #6
10. A Review of Kinderbach
11. A book review on Bertie's War

I hope you are all having a great week!

Instant Challenge #5: Leaning Tower

Here is our Instant Challenge for this week. If you missed it, be sure to see my introductory post for rules and more information if you would like to join us. I will post a linky with our solution in one week. If you are interested in participating in any of the earlier challenges, you are still welcome to link up!

#5 Leaning Tower


Tip of the Week:

For this weeks tip, I want to encourage you with some highlights from Some Basics About Creativity and Creative Problem Solving.

Creativity is "the ability of a person’s mind to take ideas, facts, and/or materials and perceive them in a unique way or manner and a different point of view, a new idea and/or a new way of looking at a problem."

If you think you are not creative, think again. Everyone is creative!

There are some creative problem solving tools that you can use to encourage your creativity and critical thinking skills and I hope to highlight some of those in future tips.

High Flying Solutions

Our High Flying Aircraft

If you missed it, be sure to see my introductory post for rules and more information!

Instant Challenge #4: High Flying

Challenge: Your TASK is to create an aircraft that will fly as far as possible and land on a target.

5ft 4 in. ~ that's 10 points.

Time: You will have up to 6 minutes to use your IMAGINATION to create your aircraft and then up to 1 minute to launch your aircraft for score.

Set-up: On one end of the room is a taped line. Behind the line is a table with materials you may use to build your aircraft. There is also a stool behind the taped line from which you may launch your aircraft.

Materials:

• 3 Pieces of Paper
• 2 Rubber Bands
• 2 Paper Clips
• 2 Craft Sticks
• 1 Piece of Foil
• 1 Piece of String
• 3 Mailing Labels
• 1 Target

The first attempt

The launch on the 2nd attempt

Scoring:
A. 20 points if your aircraft lands on the target
B. 2 points for each foot (30 cm) your aircraft travels during Part Two.
C. Up to 30 points for how creatively your team uses the materials.
D. Up to 20 points for how well your team works together

Zero out of 20 points for not landing on the target.

20 points for the distance it traveled ~ not very creative though.

Trying again.

Now this is interesting.

I didn't get a good shot at him launching this, but he used the rubber band like a slingshot to launch the plane. It traveled quite nicely.

I was pretty proud of this effort (I made this one)

Well, if my post seems out of order and confusing, it is because we did this challenge 3 times! The boys had a hard time working together on this (zero points for working together). Each one wanted to do their own thing. I noticed that Dylan (the youngest) works well with both Nathan and Jordan, but Nathan and Jordan do not work well together (they both have strong personalities and they both want their own way).

During one round, they would not agree to a plan during their brainstorming session, and there was a bit of arguing. So, I set the timer and gave them each 30 seconds to give their idea and during the last 30 seconds they were to come to an agreement. I was so proud of Dylan because during his turn, rather than telling what he thought should happen, he asked questions to get them thinking about what would be best.

Also, I wasn't sure how to score the first attempt ~ we came up with 50 points originally, but then I realized that they were only allowed one launch to score points, so we deducted the points for landing on the target, since they didn't get it in the first launch.

All in all, I think this was more of a challenge for them to work together. The challenges offer not only a good learning experience in creative problem solving, but most importantly ~ teamwork, and we could use a little more of that around here.

Are you joining us this week?

Of course, Mali wanted to participate too. *Ü*

Next Challenge: Leaning Tower

Watercoloring Through the Days of Creation

For art we have been making a Days of Creation Book using the book, The Days of Creation: Teaching the Glory of God's Work through Art. This book provides a way for children ages 9 and up to learn about the days of creation through painting representations of each day and making their own book about God's work of Creation.

This is a really neat study and we have learned a lot about watercoloring.

The colors we used.

For this course, we used a wet-on-wet method. First we soaked our paper in water for 45-60 seconds, spread the paper out on our painting surface and then used a sponge to smooth out any air bubbles.

Each watercolor represents a different aspect or day of creation.

Nathan used a wax resist for the title on his cover.

Day 1

Our first class, we painted three times. The paintings were very simple and allowed us all to get a feel for watercoloring. We learned how to hold the brush for best control, the proper way to apply strokes and the amount of water and color we should use.

The goal in our first painting is to make the paper as dark as possible, representing the verse, "The earth was without form and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep" (Genesis 1:2). First we used blue and added a touch of red to darken it.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was unformed and void, darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God hovered over the surface of the water.

The second painting represents the verse, Then God said, "Let there be light and there was light"(Genesis 1:3). So, we filled the paper with yellow adding a few gold accents.

Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.

The third painting represents the the verse, "And God divided the light from the darkness" (Genesis 1:4). We learned how to prevent the mixing of two colors.

God saw that the light was good, and God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. So there was evening, and there was morning, one day.

Day 2

In this lesson, we learned a technique called "dry brushing." This is a method of removing some of the paint which has been placed on the paper. We do this by painting with water, and then with a dry brush to remove some paint. The dry brush technique was used to create a light, curved area between the two colors. This is done to achieve a sense of movement and separation between the two shades of blue.

God said, "Let there be a dome in the middle of the water; let it divide the water from the water." God made the dome and divided the water under the dome from the water above the dome; that is how it was, and God called the dome Sky. So there was evening, and there was morning, a second day.

Day 3

In the first watercolor, we filled the page with a light layer of ultramarine blue, and then used red and yellow to make the land. It was difficult to find the right proportions of blue, red and yellow to make the land. Once the land was painted, we used Prussian blue to paint the waves beating against the shore. The blue for the waves was painted with sweeping strokes in a circular form. We used the dry brushing technique to produce the splashing effect on the edges of the land.

God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let dry land appear," and that is how it was. God called the dry land Earth, the gathering together of the water he called Seas, and God saw that it was good.

In this painting, we learned three more techniques. The first technique is that of painting a form from the inside rather than outlining it and filling it in. This painting did not show up well in the scan, but the yellow oval was painted first, and then the tree painted in the middle. The second technique was to use the narrow side of the brush (up to this point we have used the broad side only). The third technique was using mostly pigment and very little water to paint the fruit and grains of wheat.

God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, seed-producing plants, and fruit trees, each yielding its own kind of seed-bearing fruit, on the earth"; and that is how it was. The earth brought forth grass, plants each yielding its own kind of seed, and trees each producing its own kind of seed-bearing fruit; and God saw that it was good. So there was evening, and there was morning, a third day.

Day 4

In this lesson, we learned yet another technique ~ how to blend colors. It is hard to see in the scan, but all the colors of the rainbow are present in this painting.

God said, "Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to divide the day from the night; let them be for signs, seasons, days and years; and let them be for lights in the dome of the sky to give light to the earth"; and that is how it was. God made the two great lights - the larger light to rule the day and the smaller light to rule the night - and the stars. God put them in the dome of the sky to give light to the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. So there was evening, and there was morning, a fourth day.

Day 5

Again, here we are using the technique of filling out (rather than filling in). The whale begins as a horizontal line and the shape is gradually added. The dry brush technique was used on the whale's spout. Then various combinations of colors were used to paint the marine animals.

God said, "Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open dome of the sky." God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that creeps, so that the water swarmed with all kinds of them, and there was every kind of winged bird; and God saw that it was good. Then God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, multiply and fill the water of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." So there was evening, and there was morning, a fifth day.

Day 6

Two paintings are done in this lesson to make a distinction between the creation of land animals and man. Of course, the first painting includes a dinosaur and this one happens to be a sauropod, since the description in Job seems to match this kind of dinosaur:

Now consider Behemot, whom I made along with you. He eats grass like an ox. What strength he has in his loins! What power in his stomach muscles! He can make his tail as stiff as a cedar, the muscles in his thighs are like cables, his bones are like bronze pipes, his limbs like iron bars.

Since we had trouble making the land brown in day 3, we just used brown in this painting.

God said, "Let the earth bring forth each kind of living creature -each kind of livestock, crawling animal and wild beast"; and that is how it was. God made each kind of wild beast, each kind of livestock and every kind of animal that crawls along the ground; and God saw that it was good.

The painting for the creation of man is based on the painting for day 4 with the addition of moving water on the bottom. Adam is painted with his hands raised in praise to God. This painting represents the creation of man and his preeminence over the rest of creation.

Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, in the likeness of ourselves; and let them rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the animals, and over all the earth, and over every crawling creature that crawls on the earth."

So God created humankind in his own image; in the image of God he created him: male and female he created them. God blessed them: God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air and every living creature that crawls on the earth." Then God said, "Here! Throughout the whole earth I am giving you as food every seed-bearing plant and every tree with seed-bearing fruit. And to every wild animal, bird in the air and creature crawling on the earth, in which there is a living soul, I am giving as food every kind of green plant." And that is how it was. God saw everything that he had made, and indeed it was very good. So there was evening, and there was morning, a sixth day.

Day 7

The final painting shows Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. You can't see it in this scan of the painting, but behind the tree on the right is a lion in the grass which represents that the animals lived in harmony with man until the Fall.

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, along with everything in them. On the seventh day God was finished with his work which he had made, so he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. God blessed the seventh day and separated it as holy; because on that day God rested from all his work which he had created, so that it itself could produce.

Days of Creation Book

Organizing the pages and getting them ready to be bound.

Nathan's finished book.

Each page includes copywork of the Scripture verses pertaining to that day of Creation.

Note: All italic Scripture verses are from the CJB.

A Review of Mathletics

Mathletics is an online math program for children ages 5-14. But, this is not an ordinary program, it is Mathletics! It is hardly a way keep your kids seated during math time ~ they will be jumping up and down (well, it is Mathletics), but glued to the screen at the same time in this math program that is mostly educational, but a lot of fun.

Racing against other players around the world - three strikes and you are out.

Mathletics strongly supports homeschooling and offers a student guide, teacher's guide and "instant workbooks" that can be printed for continued practice off the screen.

Mathletics is fun and rewards kids for great performance. They get to design their own character and earn credits that they can spend to dress up their character. And Mathletics is not just about practice and drill.

The "?" support button offers an explanation if your child is stuck - thus it is not just drill and your child has the potential to learn new concepts.

Annual student subscription is $59. But if you know the Human Calulators favorite number, you get $9.05 off for a total of $49.95. {Hint, watch the video}

I love his secret to numbers!

My kids participated in the American Math Challenge hosted by Mathletics. They were eager "mathletes" as they raced kids from around the world. They even had a chance to race against each other. You can imagine how excited they were as they got on at the same time (on different computers) and got to race each other. The excitement level has been high around our home and I am so excited that MATH is getting them excited!

The suggested ages are ages 5 to 8th grade.

We will enjoy our subscription until it ends, but then we will seriously consider renewing!

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