Show me the Pyramids!
“Mr. K., where are the Egypt books?”
We’re in the library. Instead of having computer time today, we’re doing our beginning of the year scavenger hunt to find out where everything is. (It’s the third day of school.) The kids have been shown different sections of the library, such as fiction, nonfiction, biography, etc. Now they’re working in pairs to find books from different sections of the library, or as we like to call it at the beginning of second grade, “liberry.”
“Honey, why do you need to find books on Egypt?”
“I need pyramid books. It says so on the list.”
“Show me where it says that on your paper.”
“Right here.”
She points at a word, and I start to chuckle. I look over at the LMC teacher, who’s watching this exchange, and she mouths, “Paperbacks?” I nod, ever so slightly, trying hard not to laugh.
“See, right here, it says find a pyramid book.”
I cover up the word paper, and ask her to read the last part. She says “Back.” I cover up back, and she can’t read the word paper.
So when she was reading this on her own, she saw the letter p, and immediately assumed it was pyramids, and therefore needed to look for books about Egypt. That’s pretty smart. I was impressed at her background knowledge, and scared that she had that much trouble with the word paper.
“Great, Mr. K. What’s a paperback book?”
It’s going to be one of those years.
Bring it on.
Oh, it’s already been brought’en.
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