Oh the perils of being 'non-traditional.' My poor 1st grader was truly confused when his lesson today had him circle the correctly sized item to go with the first picture. For instance, there was a picture of a boy and two shoes: one huge and one the right size. The last one was a picture of a baby with a crib and a bed. Of course, the right answer was supposed to be the crib. But he circled the bed. He was looking over my should as I graded his paper and I almost marked it wrong (like, I started to make a mark) before I realized why he answered the way he did. He said, "That's not wrong!" I agreed and explained that they probably wanted him to circle the crib. He declared, "But mom! Babies don't go in cribs!" :lol:
Love it! We do the crib thing here, because I'm afraid of rolling on a baby (had a friend who did just that ), but they are sidecared to my bed as long as possible in the bassinet and then the crib is in our room indefinately.
I had some kids that I tested and responded something like that. Answers that were absolutely right on for that particular child!
Isn't it nice that we homeschool and can allow the kids to be right even when they answer what would be counted wrong by many? I have had similar things happen here.
Then there are kids like my daughter who never slept in a crib. In fact, we don't even have one in our house gathering toys or anything. Imagine my surprise when she comes up to me and tells me that babies sleep in a crib.
I totally agree it is nice to mark their papers knowing what they were thinking and their thought processes behind their answers. So many times I had my own work marked wrong for the same sort of thing in PS and it really irked me.
I agree! I've had a couple of things before that were "wrong" and I had to tell my son they were "right". Even on the computer, it's hard to tell him something's ok when the computer marks it wrong.
I went around and around with my oldest dd's teacher when she was a fourth grader. I would go over her papers with her (it was mostly her reading curriculum where we had this problem) and she could give me a logical reason why she chose the answer she did. I even brought the Enrichment teacher into the conversation. She agreed that my daughter's answers were logical, but said that she needed to learn to choose the answer that most people would choose so that she would do well on "the test." Ugh. So glad we don't have to deal with that this year.
It cracks me up when kids do things like that. My son was supposed to draw a line to where the birds live. Instead of drawing a line to the trees, he drew a line to the big black line that bordered the paper. When I asked him about it he said that birds sit on the power lines. Sure enough, we have no trees in our yard but the kids like to watch the birds on the power lines.
That is too funny My boys would be just the same, no cribs, bottles or pacifiers in this house, so if there were any answers that involved any of those, they would have been "wrong" for mine too
So cute! My daughter said the other day, "do they want me to answer what they think I am supposed to answer or just answer it?" LOL. Love homeschooling and love differences in families so much!
Ava, I have been asked the exact same thing in my home! :lol: My kids are older now, so we make a game of it. "Survey says...." Then we usually poke fun at the uncreative way people are trained to answer questions. Guess I probably should refrain from poking fun, but c'mon! :lol:
