Making the Grade

Yesterday the Artist and I had some appointments to deal with and so the Engineer went to visit his grandpa for a few hours in the morning. To keep him busy, and to salvage something from the school day, I packed a few school papers for him. They were not too complicated for him to work through on his own.

The Engineer loves math, and I thought he'd relish the opportunity to show off a little of his math skills for grandpa. One subtraction worksheet went into the backpack.

We lost some science time last week when I was sick, so I found a couple of worksheets on the Enchanted Learning dot com site that would keep the animals we were studying in his mind. One whale worksheet and one horse worksheet went into the backpack.When I came to pick him up, the Engineer told me he did all his work. Then Grandpa gave me a grin and said "He graded it all by himself too!" with a twinkle in his eye. It seems the Engineer thinks quite a bit of his work. He gave himself three A+ grades.

I laughed when I got home and sat down to grade his work. He read the title of the whale paper, ("Mystery Whale Connect the Dots") but did not think about what a mystery was. After connecting the dots, the child should see the distinct outline of a sperm whale. The paper asked, "What is this whale called?" My resourceful son does a brief bit of research without consulting his memory bank and prints "Mystery whale." Very clever, my dear, but not worth an A+.