Voluntary math

DS is doing math problems.  That he asked me to write for him.  

He picked up his math notebook and stared for a while at a page.

Then he came to me and said "I can do this!  Where is a pencil?"

It was the same page wasn't finished a couple of months ago because of a meltdown.  It was the same page that caused me to back off and reevaluate how much he knew about numbers and how we had to just learn to identify the numbers from the very beginning.

Now he's doing addition.  When he ran out of fingers, he drew tic marks to count.  

Seriously, this had him crying just a few weeks ago.  

:)

I had to edit because right after I hit post he figured out my pattern.  I was just going 1+2, 1+3 1+4 etc.  He figured out that they  were in order.  So proud :)

I think what started this is that I let him play How Big is your Brain on Facebook and he can at least guess all of the answers except the numbers section.  Then I have him do the simple addition ones but then I read the harder ones aloud.  I think doing them together with me gave him confidence.  

And now I just got out his abacus so he didn't have to keep making tic marks.

These moments are what homeschooling is for, right?