Fruit Inspection

Emery doesn’t get as much formal teaching time as Savannah, but he’s always hanging around, absorbing bits and pieces of whatever I’m telling her. We’ve been doing a lot of work on punctuation marks and sentence structure type stuff.

One day in her Sight Words book she was learning the words “how”, “old”, and a few others. We began writing sentences using these words and she kept getting hung up on using the word “how” first, making each sentence a question. Like, “how old is Stafford?”

I wanted her to think outside the box. “You don’t have to use the word ‘how’…try writing a sentence that isn’t a question,” I told her.

She stopped and was thinking about it for a minute when Emery shouts, “I’ve got one!!!”

“Okay, what is it?”

“Mommy is old. PERIOD!”