This is first grade. He's just finished three years of Kindergarten, i.e. preschool. They don't learn reading and writing there either usually; he's self-taught.
Jayne: Captain, can you stop her from bein' cheerful, please? Mal: I don't believe there is a power in the 'verse that can stop Kaylee from being cheerful. Sometimes you just wanna duct tape her mouth and dump her in the hold for a month.
'Serenity'
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Fiona - Sep 17, 2008 2:55:25 am PDT #8660 of 9843
Theodosia - Sep 17, 2008 3:00:33 am PDT #8661 of 9843
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
3 years of kindergarten! We only got one year, I feel cheated.
I caught on to reading pretty fast, and what one of my teachers used to do was excuse me from the drills as long as I sat quietly and read to myself from the bookshelf. Hope B. finds a similarly enlightened teacher!
billytea - Sep 17, 2008 3:08:45 am PDT #8662 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
This is first grade. He's just finished three years of Kindergarten, i.e. preschool. They don't learn reading and writing there either usually; he's self-taught.
That's interesting. In Australia, preschool and kinder are separate.
Fiona - Sep 17, 2008 3:14:18 am PDT #8663 of 9843
Well, it's called Kindergarten because, you know, Germany, but I refer to it as "preschool" because that's the US equivalent. It differs from US Kindergarden in that doesn't really involve any preparation for school at all. C. is three and has just started. There's a picture of the two of them on her first day here:
Theodosia - Sep 17, 2008 3:19:17 am PDT #8664 of 9843
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Awww. I see dinos are a big Benno theme. :-)
I think I got a half-day of some preschool for a while, but they pretty much threw tiny children into kindergarten to sink or swim circa 1965. Kids today have it so easy. ::thumps cane on floor::
Jesse - Sep 17, 2008 3:31:41 am PDT #8665 of 9843
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Fiona, your kids are so awesome! And enormous!
Fay - Sep 17, 2008 4:33:02 am PDT #8666 of 9843
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
What Jesse said!
Trudy Booth - Sep 17, 2008 6:27:39 am PDT #8667 of 9843
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Oh they're gorgeous. And huge.
Now I'm getting all nostalgic and remembering when Fiona posted that she was going into labor. The time does fly.
Beverly - Sep 17, 2008 8:33:33 am PDT #8668 of 9843
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Schone kinder, Fiona! (I canna do the umlaut!) Those are some pretty children, they just brought back a flood of memories of my preschoolers in Nurnberg, and the coos of women on the street. Your little ones deserve the compliment. So beautiful, and so big!
Fiona - Sep 17, 2008 11:36:25 pm PDT #8669 of 9843
Beverly - that's where we are!
Anyway, as of today school is already boring, because "we haven't actually learned anything yet".