Circles

Jordan gets homework now. Every Monday he gets a packet of worksheets, which is due on Friday. We parents are to help him work on the packet throughout the week. Worksheets! Kindergarten! Yowza! Well, we gave it a go this morning and Jordan thought it was just smashing. Tracing and writing capital and lowercase B’s was work, but the color-by-number page? He knocked that out in five minutes, while I was in the shower. He had never done a connect-the-dots before, and was tickled: “Hey! It’s a flowerpot!”

On another page, he was supposed to color in the pictures of things shaped like a circle. There was a drawing of a quarter, a soccer ball, and a teddy bear. He looked at all three, and the first thing he said was, “The teddy bear’s tummy is a circle.” He was completely right about this - the way the cartoon was drawn, there was a circle within the teddy bear. “And the ears too,” he noted, and again he was right, although they were not complete circles. I was not going to correct him. He colored those in, and only once that was complete did he go on to intricately color the panels on the soccer ball and the details of the quarter, with no comment about their shape. I think those were so obvious they weren’t even worth remarking on.