My mom forced me to read it:
I have decided that children write the best stories/reports on the planet. Everytime I read them I always end up laughing, because I’m too serious and these guys are all nothing but silly. One of my favorite reports recently is where I asked my kids to write me 3-4 sentences about their favorite animal and what it likes to eat - this was one of the responses:
My favorite animal is a Shark. It eats fish. It also eats people. If you see a shark you should swim away!
Honestly I gave the kid a star because I was so impressed by this paper. Also the illustration was of a shark swimming after a fish who was swimming after a person.
The same thing happened this afternoon when I was tutoring a kid this afternoon. He practiced giving his oral book report so that I could check for any mispronunciations. In the report along with giving the book details there was an “In my opinion,” section where he was asked exactly that. He started this section by saying: “My mom forced me to read this book, so I would not suggest it to others…” Between the mix of exhaustion and confusion I just started to laugh a little bit. After he finished giving his presentation I asked him if he liked making people laugh - his response what no. Again, this is just the innocence of children.
Later on in our session he asked me if I liked music, and how much - this I was a bit confused by. Responding that I liked music a lot, he asked how much a person has to like something to draw it on themselves. Then it hit me, he was referring to the tatoo on my hand. That’s when I told him that I liked music so much that I had this note drawn on six years ago - his response: “…WOW, where can I find a marker like that!”
Also to serve as an update, over half of the eggs are broken. Looks like giving raw eggs to first graders was a bad idea…
