Aw man. Same thing happened to me. In the second grade in Mrs. Shermans class, we had an exercise in the book where we were to draw lines between objects that matched; a dog and a doghouse, a hat and a pair of gloves, a hammer and a nail, a bat and a ball and so on. I drew a line from the dog to the ball, from the house to the hammer, the bat to the glove and the hat to the nail. Mrs. Sherman said it was all wrong, to try again, but it had made perfect sense to me. I had no idea what they wanted me to do. I did not understand. What I had drawn made perfect sense to me. I had to sit there through recess and stare at my paper. To the point of tears. When the kids came in from playing, the nice little girl that sat next to me named Donna, she helped me. But as per usual, I got caught cheating and had to take my paper home that night with a note that scolded me: “This is Donna’s work!!!”
I realize now that there really were no wrong answers. I can think outside anyone’s box. And this is how I came to fall in love with Donna.
It also reminds me of back when I was a chef and I told the new guy to put these 5 boxes of potatoes in the sink, and when I came back he had them stacked up in the sink, still in the boxes. Ok, my bad!
Wow - I had to read that paper 3 or 4 times before I got it! Use the "word bank" not use the word "bank". (Maybe if the teacher had spelled as a title, Word Bank, it might've been more obvious..). Yes Emma definitely got 100% on that one IMHO.
Stopped myself for a day, but I can't any longer. There's a math equivalent.
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Emma rocks!
ReplyDeleteEmma knows to read the directions carefully before beginning her work.
ReplyDeleteAw man. Same thing happened to me.
ReplyDeleteIn the second grade in Mrs. Shermans class, we had an exercise in the book where we were to draw lines between objects that matched; a dog and a doghouse, a hat and a pair of gloves, a hammer and a nail, a bat and a ball and so on.
I drew a line from the dog to the ball, from the house to the hammer, the bat to the glove and the hat to the nail.
Mrs. Sherman said it was all wrong, to try again, but it had made perfect sense to me.
I had no idea what they wanted me to do. I did not understand. What I had drawn made perfect sense to me.
I had to sit there through recess and stare at my paper.
To the point of tears.
When the kids came in from playing, the nice little girl that sat next to me named Donna, she helped me.
But as per usual, I got caught cheating and had to take my paper home that night with a note that scolded me:
“This is Donna’s work!!!”
I realize now that there really were no wrong answers.
I can think outside anyone’s box.
And this is how I came to fall in love with Donna.
What a nice story. TFS.
DeleteIt also reminds me of back when I was a chef and I told the new guy to put these 5 boxes of potatoes in the sink, and when I came back he had them stacked up in the sink, still in the boxes.
DeleteOk, my bad!
Thanks! Of course there is more...I'm lucky to have stories like these.
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Wow - I had to read that paper 3 or 4 times before I got it! Use the "word bank" not use the word "bank". (Maybe if the teacher had spelled as a title, Word Bank, it might've been more obvious..). Yes Emma definitely got 100% on that one IMHO.
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