Saturday, April 29, 2017

Spontaneous Lunch time Rhyming (Grace, Jasmin, Aiden)

Do you wanna go to the moon
With a spoon,
In a cocoon?

Do you wanna have a boon
Do you wanna see a coon?

Who-o-o!

Do you wanna see some dunes
With sand dollar runes?
Do you wanna see some
Upside - down flying loons,
In a lagoon?

Bom-bom-bom!

Driven by baboons and run by balloons?

(one more time)

Oh, yeah!
Moon, spoon,
Cocoon, boon,
Coon, dune,
Dune and rune,
loon, lagoon,
Baboon, balloon

O-o-o-o-o-h, ye-e-e-ah!

Tuesday, April 04, 2017

Aiden's Date Talk

Each week I take a different kid with me shopping and we take a pause at Tim Hortons for a "date."  It was Aiden's turn this week. Our conversation went something like this:

So, what would like to talk about while you eat your Timbits?

5 - 4=1 right? 
And 5x5=25. 
And 3x3=9 because 3+3+3 is 9.

You certainly have gotten those bits of math well.

I  don't know this question but I want to know, so...
What is 300 square rooted times 300 times 400?

Well, I don't know that either; you'll have to ask a computer.

Or a phone. Ask your phone. It has a calculator.

Ok.
So we get the answer, and Aiden laughs delightedly.

Why did you want to know that?

Because I really wanted to know that.

What are you going to do now that you know it?

Now I can do divided by questions!

He's still not yet five.
I think my boy likes math.