This is funny to a mother-teacher, but I concede that it's probably not to the world at large. When stumped about "what and what makes six," she merely changed the sum to 16 and proceeded from there.
3.19.2009
She Loves Her Some ELUFIT
Because this day's posting has featured Annie's reading, how 'bout some of her writing? While I was upstairs, Annie barged ahead in her Phonics book. The instructions only requested she write the first letter of each word, but she likes to reach for the sky, hence the ELUFIT and MUCE and DEMIMD.
This is funny to a mother-teacher, but I concede that it's probably not to the world at large. When stumped about "what and what makes six," she merely changed the sum to 16 and proceeded from there.
This is funny to a mother-teacher, but I concede that it's probably not to the world at large. When stumped about "what and what makes six," she merely changed the sum to 16 and proceeded from there.
Please thank Annie for making me laugh out loud...
ReplyDeleteI love the "voelid" as well as the "demimd" ring!
And...hey, she's right 8 + 8 = 16.
Smart girl.
That is GENIUS!!
ReplyDeleteI love it! These are the things you want to hang onto forever. :) Stephen has come up with some interesting spellings, too.
ReplyDeleteI think my favorite is "muce" for monkey. "Mu(n)c-e", you see. :)I'm with Liana on "Demimd" and "voelid" too. And I think changing the 6 to 16 was very clever of her. How many 4-year olds (isn't that how old she is?) would write 8 plus 8 equals 6 and then know enough to change it to 16?
ReplyDeleteDon't you love that YOU are enjoying the amusing way her mind works instead of someone else!!! Such a joy to teach your own children!!!
ReplyDeleteKiley,
ReplyDeleteAmen!
Cadie,
To clarify, the reason why she knows "doubles facts" is because she's been using the Saxon 1 curriculum this year. It introduces doubles facts fairly early and then builds on them for other addition and subtraction facts. (But I won't mind if you think she's clever enough to know that innately!)