Thanks Nancy,

I appreciate your advice and you really encouraged me. We started Lesson 6 today and it starts with show 7 with your fingers. She could not remember to do this so I had her show five and she could...then we did six, and seven. Then we did the abacus and she understands showing five...but she is lost when it comes to the quantity six or seven. So then we went back to the tally sticks and tried that and she couldn't remember either. So I showed her helped her show six and sang the section of Yellow is the Sun for six and then asked her again what quantity it ways right after I had told her and she coudln't remember .

We probably have moved too fast...because we have done 6 lessons in six days...and not all of the lessons were consecutive. There was a week between the fourth and fifth lesson because I had a medical issue come up and was unable to do school. I should have reviewed past lessons to refresh her memory.

I really appreciate your advice and I will go back and review quantities and I will do the games when we get that far(the quantities games start on lesson 9). Or maybe I can modify the quantities game to only do the quantities we have learned so far 1-7.

I was not taught to do mental math...and I think sometimes it is hard for me to trust that they can really learn to think this way.

Thanks again.