We had an interesting morning here, but the rest of the day seems to be shaping up pretty well. Travis did not want to complete his math test this morning -- the test which sudden illness prevented him from completing yesterday. He was under the impression that when one becomes sick during a test, one is excused from ever finishing the test and is simply handed an "A." It took a fair lot of discussion to disabuse him of this interesting notion. He has been plugging along like a dutiful little trooper, though, now that we are past the rocky start of the day.
Katie started reading the first Reader from Box 2 of Hooked on Phonics today. We only got half-way through it. She could probably have managed the second half, but I couldn't. Katie is a Silly Reader, constantly going off of tangents. For example, every time we come to the word "look," she has to sing the Chicken Jane song.
Every time. Today, though, as I ground my teeth and struggled to appear patient, she changed the words in one place to "Look, Scot, look! See the frustrated mommy!" Guess I'm not doing such a great job acting. Then she started to sing "192* Pages to Go" (to the tune of 99 Bottles of Beer). When we got through page 9 I decided that we should quit before I cracked a tooth, so Katie and Ed are now happily playing Chocolate Factory.
*Slam and Dunk and the Big Game does not have 193 pages.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Thank You Chicken Jane!
Posted by Melora at 12:09 PM
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Ah, Chicken Jane. John LOATHED Chicken Jane a couple years back. Seems when there was a Chicken Jane segment, Cliff Hanger got bumped. And THAT was just WRONG, of course.
I guess I can understand his feelings -- Cliff Hanger is pretty wonderful -- but to loathe Chicken Jane? I hope he remembered to confess that.
Well, at least Katie was having fun! And it looks like lots of fun, according to the pictures.
She sounds a lot like my niece in Bloomington, who is also called Katie.
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