Brandonisms
Sep. 5th, 2009 12:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssianThat Mr. B, he's one schmott guy.
Sitting there, eating breakfast, he turned to me and said "My birthday is in six days."
Apparently, he's been doing this for a few days now, correctly subtracting one each day to get to the right number.
Only thing is, he hasn't formerly been taught any addition or subtraction. He just started kindergarten a few weeks ago, and is still on some of the basic introductory math type stuff.
And to think, the school district decided that since he wasn't five on the first day of September, he would be forced to start kindergarten next year.*
Yep, he's one schmott guy. All he needs is a hat.
* We had this problem, slightly more legitimately so, with Rachel's late December birthday and a more typical cutoff date of late October/early November, and that was what started us in on homeschooling in the first place. Rachel is now in seventh grade and hasn't had any problems advancing beyond what other kids a year older than her can do.
Sitting there, eating breakfast, he turned to me and said "My birthday is in six days."
Apparently, he's been doing this for a few days now, correctly subtracting one each day to get to the right number.
Only thing is, he hasn't formerly been taught any addition or subtraction. He just started kindergarten a few weeks ago, and is still on some of the basic introductory math type stuff.
And to think, the school district decided that since he wasn't five on the first day of September, he would be forced to start kindergarten next year.*
Yep, he's one schmott guy. All he needs is a hat.
* We had this problem, slightly more legitimately so, with Rachel's late December birthday and a more typical cutoff date of late October/early November, and that was what started us in on homeschooling in the first place. Rachel is now in seventh grade and hasn't had any problems advancing beyond what other kids a year older than her can do.
