Because she calls me a couple of times a week on her way home from school. I appreciate that more than she knows. Even on the days I can’t answer because of crazy homework circuses and whatnot.
Because she’s my teacher reference. Whenever I have a question about what the kids are supposed to be doing or how something school-related works, she talks me through it (having a 3rd grade teacher in my arsenal is pretty fantastic).
And most of all, because she’s hysterical. In yesterday’s post, I asked what exactly Alex was supposed to “explain” on his math homework. Today before we hung up, she started to answer that for me. I told her about the problem.
I said, “The question asked something like: ‘The polar bear wears 1623 pounds. About how much more does the brown bear weigh? Explain.’ There was a picture of the second bear holding a sign with his weight on it. So Alex rounded and subtracted, got the right answer no problem. But what was he supposed to explain?”
The answer we came up with: The second bear probably weighed that much more because of an emotional eating problem. Or maybe because he felt the keepers didn’t really like him.
Now that’s a math paper explanation I can get behind. 😀
