Well ... That's Definitely An Answer

First off ... where in the world did the time go? Often times I wish I could save my free time minutes like those AT&T commercials. You know, just tuck them away in a safe place for those moments when time is lacking in my life.

The past month has only lacked time for me. It's like my life is the energizer bunny that keeps going and going and going. Yet I am more like the tortoise who, although beat the hare, was ridiculously slow. So take that hare/life - one day I will dominate you and your energizer ways!!

Since we are on the topic of time ... I don't have much of that left to create a full compilation of all the joys, wonders, and mysteries of my room. So just to wet your whistle for more to come here is todays marvelous moment.

I was working with a small group of chicklets on comprehension. We read a mind-blowing

and incredibly riveting story about a dog who finds different colored balls and chews them, plays with them, and .... oh I don't want to give away the ending to such a compelling tale. One of the questions asked was "What color ball do you think the dog found next?"

------ Side story (ooo - a bonus story. Must be your lucky day) We spent a week ... A WHOLE WEEK ... learning common and proper nouns. Took the test and I have kids tell me that proper nouns begin with a question mark and that 'run' is a common noun. Yet we read this crappy ... er touching story about a dog and they make comments such as "A dog is a common noun because it doesn't give us specific information" or "Ball is a common noun". Where was that knowledge when we took the test? Leave it in your back pocket? Played hide and seek with it and you lost? Children!! --

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Well you should have had PLENTY of time to generate an answer for that Final Jeopardy question! Most of the "normal" kids are selecting answers like green, pink, purple, black, etc. You average, run-of-the-mill colors. Then I hear this .... drum roll please .... Chartreuse. And yes I did

have to look up how to spell it BUT in my defense I was a lot closer in my spelling than she was. Sharktoosh ... come on now!! Not really a color most people ponder on and use regularly much less a 6 year-old.

Awww nothing quite like a Chartreuse ball to ... marry! Yes this same child decided that the dog would then marry the ball. Oh no ... sniff, sleep, play, chew ... those are for amateurs. Her final sentence

The dog will marry the sharktoosh ball!

Emphasis on the exclamation point because ... and I quote "The exclamation point is there to show a weird emotion because it is weird for a dog to marry a ball."

On that note ... good night and sweet dreams of a chartreuse ba-dog!

It can bark and bounce and fetch itself.