into the world: 2+2= 11?

First things first, I know my pre-school and kindergarten teachers aren't reading this right now, but if they were I would want to thank them. For teaching me my A,B,C's and 1,2,3's.

In the afternoon's I spend time with the younger kids at House of Hope, there are four of them right now, Chetan, Tanmay, Sakshi and Sahara. All at pretty different learning levels but in the same class. They only go to school in the mornings and after talking to their teacher I have learned that Sahara and Tanmay don't know their A,B,C's and Chetan and Sakshi need help with their math. So, I started doing just that. Which I figured couldn't be THAT hard right? Abc's I mean, everyone knows the song right? Wrong. Sahara does know the song though, but LMNOP is all one letter. So, I decided to take it a letter a day for Tanmay and Sahara, and its been going pretty well actually. The tracing letter pages that I found online have been the best and also reviewing everyday. Sometimes we have to stay on a letter for two days, but thats alright because they are learning, and I am SO excited for them.

Math is another story... Chetan is VERY good at math, we have our counting beans and he can add up some pretty hefty numbers, I am pretty proud. Sakshi on the other hand.. we were counting beans today. Adding 2 and 2 together.. So, we counted the beans.. "one, two, three, four" "good job Sakshi.. so what is 2+2?" "11!" This is the point where I just look at her and think to myself "are you kidding?" This is also the point where I remember my current math skills and wonder how TERRIBLE I was at math when I was younger.. So, right now were just taking it one day at a time. One math problem a day, and hopefully by February we will figure out together that 2+2 does not equal 11.