Miles Musings

Run-on sentences notwithstanding, I see some really great things in this kid's academic future. He can logic!

The scene: Hallway, living room and home exterior, as we load up and head out to school this morning.

Starting as I hand him a brush from the hallway bathroom while keeping his toddler brother out of said bathroom cabinets with a blocking ankle and a proffered pacifier, this conversation unfolds...

Miles: Mom. Um... hey, Mom? When we lived in Colorado, was our area code 303?

Me: Why YES, hon, it was! How did you know that?

Him: Well, um... your car... that is a Saturn... well, you bought it when I was a baby....
(pause to bend down and fidget for no obvious reason....mumbling while strapping on backpack)
... and I was a baby in Colorado. So, um... um.... well, in that little place-where-you-keep-the-mail, there's this gold thing-that-attaches-to-keys, and, um, it says the name Saturn and also the name Boulder, and that is in Colorado, I know.

...

Me: .... OK. So, what?! That wasn't the end of your explanation, was it?

Him: Oh, and so on the little gold thingy under the "SATURN OF BOULDER" (uses formal reading voice) is their phone number. And it starts with a 3. Well, actually, 303. And so that's how I guessed.

And then he walks past me, munching the rest of his granola bar across the driveway, saying with crumbs coating his lips: "I think the peanut butter ones are definitely the crunchiest. I think that because I have eaten every flavor. And I observed it."

Oh, how we love that Miles! What's better than brains PLUS a slightly nutball sense of scientific observation?

Writing Samples

I can't remember right now why I've been collecting random writing samples from my 6-year-old... or where I wanted to go with this post. But, in the month of his 7th birthday, just past the middle of his First Grade year, these little snippets of scholarhood must be worth saving!

Each comes from a worksheet with some sort of writing prompt. I think the last bit is an aside (as it's written vertically up the page) to explain the answer called for in the prompt. And I think they're learning "writing strategies," from the looks of things...


"My hous has no chimny, is verrrey short, small base, with short rouf."


"Cupid is a unocorn that has wengs across his body bow with a maguc horn. & a metal tayl."


"The number that I put for 1 is the part that is the beginning. 2 is what happens next. 3 is the end."