Family Math Night

Even though I wasn't terribly excited about Be Excited About Math Day last week, I definitely got excited about Math Night this week. Well, I was excited at how awesomely our math specialist incorporated our upcoming author visit into her program. Author Jerry Pallotta will be at our school this Friday, and he has written many counting books and math concept books. The math specialist had a table of his books (with order forms for signed copies) and little counting, addition, or subtraction books that the kids could make on their own. There were flashy stickers there and glitter markers and stamps and stamp pads. The kids had such a great time!

I even made a special vest for the occasion. I bought some fancy number fabric from my favorite online store and whipped up a vest (lined and everything!) on Sunday. Here was the super-cool fabric: