More Logic Links

Supriya and I have had a strange ritual the last few nights. She and Aseem love to watch "Drake and Josh" from 9 to 10. Aseem goes off with Manisha to sleep, and then Supriya says, "Let's do Logic Links!" It makes perfect sense actually. She has a ton of physical energy and it's only when it's all burned off that she can tackle purely mental stuff.

So she sits down on her bed and puts the lid of a bin in her lap as a tray. I read her a puzzle and she works it out. I read the instructions slowly, one at a time. She thinks about each and starts assembling the circles. Once we have read through all the instructions and she has a decent hypothesis, I go back and read all the instructions again. She verifies that they are all met, "Check. Check. Check..." Then we go to the end of the book and double-check her answer against the key.

She has been doing anywhere from 4 to 8 a night, as her mental energy allows. I am impressed by the progress she has made in the last couple of weeks. She still tends to jump the gun a little and assumes more than the instruction is telling her, but that's rare. We just got done with #50, which is the halfway point (the book is aimed at grades 3 and 4).