Imperfect Genius

Here are two sheets I created recently. Both are simple but useful and I wanted to share them.

First up is a Math Sheet to practice with numbers up to eleven. There are 42 problems, half of which are addition and half are subtraction. MJ wanted to do some math problems so I whipped up this worksheet for her.

She didn’t do it all at once, but randomly picked ten or so to do at a time, not going in any particular order. Some she did sitting on her bed, some outside on the porch. Whatever works for her is just fine.

She really liked the problems where a number was subtracted from zero - she thought those were pretty funny. Oh, just wait kiddo! We’ll get into the concept of negative numbers soon enough and then we’ll see who’s laughing. Bwahahaha!

Next is Writing Paper that I designed for MJ. She is able to accurately form smallish letters so the writing tablets available at most stores aren’t suitable (the lines are too wide) but she isn’t ready for regular wide-rule paper either, so we had a dilemma.

Since she needed something in-between I created this paper for her. I also took the opportunity to lightly shade the spaces between the lines. Kids who have visual-spacial difficulties (or other special needs) have trouble determining which line is for writing.

I’ve noticed lots of times where kids wrote on the top of the dotted line or in the space between the lines. And it’s no wonder - a page full of horizontal lines can be confusing. Trying to decipher which line is meant to be written on can be stressful. The gray shading greatly reduces this problem.

MJ uses this paper to write her penpals and to create her own stories. This writing paper can be printed using grayscale, you do not need a color printer. The lines are not too wide but just right for this in-between stage of writing. I hope your family finds it as helpful as we have.