The Weight of a Mouse--The Age of a Tree

Today Abert got the idea that he could weigh his mice. So he brought them down one at the time and put them on our scale. And then he wrote edown how much each one weighed. All of sudden he was totally engage. But this numbers were not very good, so after he finished, I suggested he practice writing some numbers, and surprisingly, he agreed. I wrote the numbers acros the top and showed him how to make each one, and he copied them all three or four times, VERY carefully, and really very well.
Then we decided to go out for a walk to collect autum leaves for some new placemats. Albert saw a big stump and decided to climb up on top of it. I asked him if he could count the rings and he was totally interested in doing it. He sat there for awhile counting up the rings (there were 89) and I told him that tree must have been born the same year as Grandma Estelle. He thought about that for a while. And then he wrote down 89 (VERY well) on a piece of paper I found in my pocket. And then he went off toi find other stumps to see how old they were. It was really fun.