02/10/09

Tuesday morning I had asked Mme. Brice, who teaches third grade, how Cedric is doing. I sponsor Cedric but don't see him every day since I am usually up in my class before he gets to school and he is gone before I get out of class. She was explaining that he is a talker and was having a little trouble getting him to settle down. She jokingly said she tells him that if he doesn't behave that she will send him upstairs to talk to me. Well, I had started class and it wasn't but a half hour into the beginning of school and he came walking into my room. It's funny because whenever a student from elementary school walks into class my students always giggle a little. I think it is because the little kids look so cute when they come tip toeing into the class as they practically walk along the wall hugging it for protection against the high school students as if they were sitting there like wolves among sheep. As he walked up to me he was holding a paper and handed it to me. I took a look at it and saw that it was his math test. He had gotten a 100% on it. I was amazed at the problems on it. There was one algebra problem which said, "Find the value of n and check. "n + 4 = 7 + 5". He also had ten questions about conversions such as bushels to pecks, quarts to pints, ton to pounds. He also had Roman numerals. I guess I had just forgotten how early some of this stuff begins.