Bentley's newest interest is writing number charts. He takes a piece of paper and writes all the numbers from one to over one hundred. He gave his first number chart to Grandma Karen, who I am sure appreciated it properly because she is an accountant and (surely!) loves numbers.
The second chart he numbered all the way to 240. He says he is going to use it for a hide and seek chart. Every time he plays hide and seek he will mark off one number. Okay...I'm not sure I want to know how many times I've played hide and seek.
Bentley showed the number chart off to his home teachers. One quickly caught the awesome vision of the charts and made the appropriate comments. The other man looked at the chart and pointed out that some of the numbers were backwards. Well, duh! The child isn't even five yet (three more days to go). We certainly aren't going to kill his enthusiasm by insisting on perfect numbers every time. He'll get there. (We have gently brought the topic up.) Also, he wrote all the numbers is correct sequential order, but not always in a straight row. If there was a little space above a row, he filled it in with whatever number he was on. I tried to steer him away from doing it. "Are you sure you should put the numbers there?" "Oh, yes", he told me "It's like that up there." and he pointed up a few rows where he'd successfully filled in a blank area. "Oh" I replied, "You're right!"
It took him hours to make his charts. He started on the second one at noon, took a break for a short nap, then headed back to working on it. He told his dad that he had been working longer than his dad had. Not quite true, but he had been working for hours. B has great focus. Fantastic job!
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