Yeah, we really nailed this homeschooling thing...

[trulycrabby]

So, we are going over the discussion questions in The Story of the World Activity Book this morning, and I ask: "What large country invaded Korea and ruled over part of it?"

 

DS10's answer: "Kansas." :rofl:

 

Earlier, when we were doing map work, I gave instructions for him to colour the Yellow river from left to right to show which way it flowed into the ocean, DS10 asked: "Which side is left?" :o

 

AND Then, when he was colouring the Korean peninsula, I instructed him to outline the area surrounded by water, he coloured only the China/Korea border. When I pointed out his error, he stated: "Oh....I thought China was the ocean and the ocean was China." :o

 

At this point, I decided to give the prodigy a break for the holidays...

[KrissiK]

I'm so glad my kids aren't the only ones like this. We go over world geography every. day. Yes, every day. Continents and oceans for sure, and then we make our way through countries and capitols. Not those every day, but at least continents and oceans. My 8 year old dd had no idea where South America was. And we point to them on the world map as we recite them. I feel like turning in my homeschooling mom badge and just sweeping the floor at McDonald's.

[Mommy22alyns]

So, we are going over the discussion questions in The Story of the World Activity Book this morning, and I ask: "What large country invaded Korea and ruled over part of it?"

 

DS10's answer: "Kansas." :rofl:

 

Earlier, when we were doing map work, I gave instructions for him to colour the Yellow river from left to right to show which way it flowed into the ocean, DS10 asked: "Which side is left?" :o

 

AND Then, when he was colouring the Korean peninsula, I instructed him to outline the area surrounded by water, he coloured only the China/Korea border. When I pointed out his error, he stated: "Oh....I thought China was the ocean and the ocean was China." :o

 

At this point, I decided to give the prodigy a break for the holidays...

 

 

Oh, thank goodness! We sent Sylvia to go get a coke refill and DH told her to go to the one on the right.  She paused at the left one.  I'm like, "No Sylvia, your OTHER right!"  And then I wondered if they've ever learned anything I taught them ever.  

[blondeviolin]

Oh, thank goodness! We sent Sylvia to go get a coke refill and DH told her to go to the one on the right. She paused at the left one. I'm like, "No Sylvia, your OTHER right!" And then I wondered if they've ever learned anything I taught them ever.

My HUSBAND still holds up his "L" to make sure he remembers left from right. :lol:

[Haiku]

When we studied the Civil War, my kids asked me if I had been alive during it.

[Melinda in VT]

My HUSBAND still holds up his "L" to make sure he remembers left from right. :lol:

I'm worse than that. I see Ls on both hands.

 

I don't seem to be dyslexic in any other way . . .

[SparklyUnicorn]

I'm constantly talking about where stuff is.  We've got all sorts of maps on the wall.  Our house is like a trivia game show.  Yet I still get crazy answers like that more times than I'd like to admit.

 

Maybe eventually it'll sink in...

 

 

[SparklyUnicorn]

When we studied the Civil War, my kids asked me if I had been alive during it.

 

I get that a lot.  :glare:

 

 

[Slojo]

That's okay, my kids (7 and 9) say things like "United States of Michigan" and "the State of Chicago." The other day, their Chinese tutor was reviewing days of the week. First, they struggled to remember what day it was, and then when she asked them to construct a sentence in Chinese about what day it would be two days from now, they were stumped. Then my 9 year old goes, "Um...Saturday?" (He did get the Chinese translation for Saturday right - but, umm, it's Thursday). I wanted to slink into the corner.

 

Love the comment about giving our prodigies a break for Christmas - we wouldn't want to "hothouse" them and push them too hard. (Somehow I don't think that will be the topic of discussion of any therapy sessions about their childhood in the future  :lol: !)

[Cinder]

Our challenge is with math. The other day I was helping dd work a division problem and we came to the part where you have to subtract. I say, "So what's 9-8?" And she looks at me with blank eyes. She says, "1." I say, "Write that down." She writes 7. I give her a funny look. "Why did you write 7?" She says, "You said what's 8-1?" :blink:

 

Interestingly she seems smarter at math when dh works with her. 

[plansrme]

She is 14 now, but in second grade, we studied the Civil War extensively.  We read books, we visited the Civil War exhibit at the Atlanta History Center.  We took a field trip to Chickamauga Battlefield.  We visited the Southern Museum of something-or-another that has the General, the locomotive that was stolen by the Yankees.  We watched the movie about the General.  We really covered the Civil War.  The third time we visited Kennesaw Mountain, the site of a pivotal battle before the Union Army burned Atlanta, Kennesaw Mountain which is so close to us that we can practically see it from our house, we were watching a demonstration by some Civil Wear reenactors.  Keeping in mind that this was our third visit, as the reenactors are getting started, my second-grade prodigy says, "What war was fought here?"  Loudly.  So proud.

[trulycrabby]

...Now I am wishing I hadn't been so free with my likes last night... :)

 

DS10 generally doesn't mix up his lefts and rights, but mapwork seems to suck every brain cell out of his body. Plus, he was extra squirrelly since it was our last subject before Christmas break.

 

...and I think he once asked me if we were alive when the pyramids were built. :rofl:

 

...and I hope Gramma had a sense of humor about the dinosaurs. :o

 

"United States of Michigan" kind of has a nice ring to it... :rofl:

 

 

Kennesaw Mountain is beautiful. We have hiked it many times, but it has been 15 years since we lived in Atlanta. :001_wub:

[Mom23Boys]

When we visited Manassas, my then 4 year old didn't believe any battles had taken place there because all the buildings had "No weapons allowed" signs on them. And, you can't fight a war without weapons.

[waa510]

It's something about geography, I swear. I inundate my children in geography learning resources and we still have situations like that take place.

 

No, child, London is not a country. Your best friend's mom is from England...get it together!!

[ThisIsTheDay]

Earlier, when we were doing map work, I gave instructions for him to colour the Yellow river from left to right to show which way it flowed into the ocean, DS10 asked: "Which side is left?" :o

 

 

 

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

 

This got me started.  I laughed my way through the rest of the thread.  I think I used up my likes, but it was worth it.

[Jasperstone]

When we studied the Civil War, my kids asked me if I had been alive during it.

My ds then 8 asked his father if he was around when the printing press was invented!!!!

[GailV]

I'm worse than that. I see Ls on both hands.

 

I don't seem to be dyslexic in any other way . . .

 

I always thought that was a flaw in the "look for the L" method of telling which was left.  Especially when you tell it to little kids, who are even shakier about what L looks like.

[Χά�ων]

Nice to know I am not alone on these.

[goldberry]

It's something about geography, I swear. 

 

I believe this!  

 

Awhile back DD15 (yes 15) was talking about Norwegian fish or something, and said, "Norwegian fish...from Norwegia!"

 

:leaving:

 

I almost died of embarassment!

[trulycrabby]

[quote name="goldberry" post="6091270" "Norwegian fish...from Norwegia!"

 

 

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

 

...and sushi from Japania...

[gaillardia]

Sometimes my darling adorable 18 yr. old son likes to say, "oh, you must have been HOME schooled." Then he laughs. I used to feel insulted but I use that phrase quite often now too.

I guess he is making a joke out of the attitude some people have about home schooled kids.

 

[LMD]

Our challenge is with math. The other day I was helping dd work a division problem and we came to the part where you have to subtract. I say, "So what's 9-8?" And she looks at me with blank eyes. She says, "1." I say, "Write that down." She writes 7. I give her a funny look. "Why did you write 7?" She says, "You said what's 8-1?" :blink:

 

Interestingly she seems smarter at math when dh works with her. 

 

Oh my goodness, my son vs math  :banghead:   He raced through fractions, multiplication, division no problem.  Tears over 9-2.  Seriously.  I love the kid, but this is a recurring theme...

[KungFuPanda]

Mine once declared with confidence that London was the capital of Paris. He was flippin ELEVEN. We explained the difference, pulled out the maps, quizzed until he could give the right answer, and BAM . . . London was the capital of Paris again the following week.

[Dmmetler]

Apparently Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg address when he freed the Jews during WWII. Sigh....

[Liz CA]

When we studied the Civil War, my kids asked me if I had been alive during it.

 

Well, compare this to the fact that a 18 yo college student (at least not my son!) once asked me if I was alive during WWII because I knew so much about it.

:ohmy:

 

[Mom23Boys]

I almost forgot. When we were driving into DC a few years back, we saw the Washington Monument. I asked my boys if they knew what is was and my then 9 year old answered " the Eiffel Tower". Umm, no. Not quite.

[EndOfOrdinary]

Yesterday my son was making up a code. He came up to me very perplexed and asked, "What letter comes after "w." He's ten.

 

Harvard here we come!

[zimom]

DD2 was being interviewed for TV when she was 8 or 9. We have a VERY easy last name. First question was where do you go to school. She replied she homeschooled. Second was what is your name and spell it. She turns around to me and yells, "MOM, how do you spell our last name????"

 

I just shrunk.

[trulycrabby]

DH is cracking up over our "Einstein Stories." :rofl:

[KBadd]

We sponsor a boy named Ismael who apparently lives in "Guacamole" (Guatemala) ;)

[KBadd]

AND when my 5 year old learned about the Civil War and slavery he was fascinated. The next week at church he kept whispering in my ear, "There's a man over there with dark skin. Is he a SLAVE???" (Not quietly enough!) Umm....

 

[Slojo]

We sponsor a boy named Ismael who apparently lives in "Guacamole" (Guatemala) ;)

 

Okay, your children are doing better than a church acquaintance of ours -- years later, my husband and I still get a chuckle out of this one - the malapropism, not the situation: She was describing a friend of hers, and said, "Pray for him, the other night he drunk himself to Bolivia." We didn't have the heart to tell her at the time that she probably meant "into oblivion." 

 

Back to my children: I prompted my nine year to give me the word for the literary technique of using several words in close proximity that begin with the same letter. The answer: "Obliteration?" That would be alliteration.

[gaillardia]

DH is cracking up over our "Einstein Stories." :rofl:

I wasn't homeschooled, but I don't get it. What are Einstein Stories? Do you mean all the stories we are sharing or is there something I missed?

 

Color me:

 

Clueless and I don't know my last name.

[momacacia]

I know I'm going to run into this. Dd#1 is very visual and a geography whiz. #2 is very auditory and it has taken forever for her to finally realize that when we're driving to Grandma's house (multiple times a week) that we are not in Alabama, nor headed toward Alabama, nor are we leaving Alabama. Geography is going to be, well, a trip with her!

[Jasperstone]

I have shared these before but in case you missed them. ;-)

 

Just after explaining to my vistors from Germany, the benefits of home schooling....

 

My dd 12 asks- Mum, how many meters in a kilometer?

 

Then a few mins later my ds 9 asks- Do cars in Germany have seat belts?

 

Why, oh why, those questions now- were my thoughts!!!

[IsabelC]

We are not church goers but we went to a carol service this evening. Beautiful old Anglican cathedral with an ornately carved rood screen featuring, according to Ms. 6, "Jesus on the cross and two goddesses". (I'm pretty sure they were angels. And I'm pretty sure I have told her before that Christianity has one god and no goddesses.)

 

Although it's not just the kids around here, because I was the person who mistook an armadillo for an aardvark (surely an easy error to make, cause you know, they are both mammals and the both begin with A).

[Amber in SJ]

While discussing which foreign language she would like to take in high school my then 10 yo dd said,  "Germish."  I asked her what that was and she explained that it is what the speak in Germany.  You know:

 

England = English

Spain= Spanish

Germany = Germish......right?

 

 

Also while taking my littles on a trip to the huge downtown library my relatively new reader read the words on the building, "Martin Luther King Jr. Library."  I said, "You know who that is, right?"  and she said......

"Yeah!  The guy who wrote Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom."

 

Amber in SJ

[Amber in SJ]

I have another homeschooling fail but it was the parent.  We were at a little zoo/ animal rescue place they have here and there was a turkey vulture that only had one wing.  One little kid asked why it only had one wing and the zookeeper said it had been shot through the wing and they couldn't save the wing, but it would live a good life at the zoo.  As we walked away the little boy asked his mom ( a good friend of mine) why someone would shoot a turkey vulture.  She said,

"People eat them."  !?!?!?!?

I couldn't help myself.  I said, "Oh no.  People generally, do not eat turkey vultures."  She said to me:

"Then what do you eat for Thanksgiving?"   I tried hard to explain that turkeys and turkey vultures are not the same bird, but I don't think she believed me.

 

Amber in SJ