Bassie came home yesterday with a sheet of paper with three giant, handwritten division problems on it. I asked if she was doing division in class. “No,” she said. “I was just pretending I was in first grade and I had homework.”
Little does she know that her mommy also used to make “fake” homework for herself after she was finished with all of her “real” class work. I would also dig worksheets out of the scrap paper pile and actually complete them, rather than drawing on the blank side.
Nature or nurture? You be the judge…
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bassie would really enjoy Countdown (available at http://countdown.luc.edu). Check it out sometime!
Strange. In first grade I used to change all the subtraction signs on the worksheets to plus signs, and then complete the problems based on my changes. I kept this up until my teacher eventually decided that i was bored by workesheets and should only have to complete half of each sheet. From then on I was only given half a page (with the bottom half torn off). I was delighted. Are you sure you’re my sister?
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