Well, Jamie constantly surprises me. We’ve obviously been talking to him about numbers for a while now and in the last 6 months he’s been getting more and more confident and capable.
His latest thing is counting to 100. Really impressed with the speed at which he’s understood the process. It must have been 6 weeks ago when I was walking with them to climbing on a Monday and explaining to him how the 10 numbers (such as 10, 20, 30 etc) followed the same sequence as the numbers from 1 to 10. At that point he didn’t know the sequences of 10’s and kept asking what came next after each one. I kept saying it always starts from 1 again, you just add the ’10’ number to the front, as in thirty-one, thirty-two etc.
Anyway, less than 3 weeks later we were walking through the park as a family and he started to count to 100. He did it easily and Claire said he had done that with a her a couple of times! Since then, i’ve heard him do it a few times. It’s amazing to see how as soon as one part of the whole process is understood, it all falls into place.
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