People can make me cranky sometimes.

Posted February 6th, 2009 by sara

Don't you love when people lie to you on the phone and you call them on it. I don't. I would rather they were honest with me in the first place, but that's beside the point and not what this entry is about.

At pick-up on M, Tu, or W, Xander's teacher informed me that Xander had given an excellent answer in Project Group and to ask him about it. Due to the hectic nature's of our first 3 weekdays I didn't get around to asking him until dinner discussion Thursday night. The other 3 days are spent telling the kids to hurry and eat their dinners we have places to be. I didn't know if he would recall at that point, but tried anyway. I asked him, "What ideas he had in project group?" His initial response was, "I didn't have Project group today." I got more specific and broadened (don't you just love a good paradox) the question out to include the whole school week.

The discussion group question in school was something like, "In what ways do people use grids?" Xander answer went something like this, "In the ocean, scientists use grids to count animal populations and determine endangered species." He was wordier than that and it led to a bunch of follow-up questions from Mom and Dad. I wondered where he learned about something like that since it isn't something that would have been covered by first grade and it isn't something we have ever brought up at home. He read it in the book "Marine Life" one of his favorite check-outs from the school library. The book reads like a reference book. It contains several hundred pages of information about different things living in the ocean. Every time he borrows that book I hear how it is his favorite book ever and he wants to buy it. There's more to the title but I don't know it.

The funny thing is I have been worrying about him not reading enough fiction chapter books and he just recently got into the "Secrets of Droon" series. Fact books and story books require different attention spans. If you don't know what a grid is or in what ways people use them, Xander can answer any questions unless it is about video game grids in which case I would ask Jared.

Do you like the Secrets of

On February 9th, 2009 Ashlee (not verified) says:

Do you like the Secrets of Droon? I have tried to get Spencer into them, but didn't push it too much since I had never read them. Gotta love smart kids eh?

your kids are really

On February 7th, 2009 Grandpa Anderson (not verified) says:

your kids are really amazing. I am so proud of them. You spend a lot of quality time with them, so good job. Tell all 4 of your boys I love them. Love you.

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