One of my students, A, has been with me for over a year now. He was just three years old when he started, and without much English. His favourite thing was to get the Playmobil cars out, fill them with people, and quietly act out stories with them on his own.
He did lots of other things too. Here he is in the playground, back then in September 2020, with two other students, making a house with the giant Polydron:
There is a Numbrblocks episode called Terrible Twos, where 4 splits into two 2s who tickle the other numbers while they sleep which makes them split into ones. Here is A's version in magnetic Polydron, a 4 made of two 2s.
The building continues:
What I really am pleased about is that all this learning is initiated by him (in a climate of appreciation and encouragement of course). It is very much his own and at his pace. I'm pleased that all the four year old students in my class have also found their own different ways to this, enjoying representing numbers and equations. A has also influenced younger students in the class too. T in particular is a real enthusiast for creating the same kind of Polydron 3D numberblocks.
As the students do, T told me some equations linked with what he was doing, and then told me a few more he knew:
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