My Day....

Well, here we were: middle of the afternoon, all the one-on-one teaching done for the day and I'm working on something (probably laundry!) and down comes my daughter with a question about her independent school work.

Now, I know that she has been working on some geography and reading...and she comes up to me asking in all seriousness:

DD: Mom, which state is on a horse?

Me: Excuse me?

DD: Which state is on a horse?

We repeat this a couple of times... each time I ask her to explain her question a little bit but she seems perplexed at my inability to get the simple question she is asking and simply keeps asking the same question: Which state is on a horse?

Now, I find myself thinking: What? Has she lost her mind? Is she asking about state seals? State flags? Is she think of ranch brands? What is she reading again? What is she struggling with? Do I need to have my hearing checked? Have I lost my mind? Why am I not getting this??!!!

DD: (now giggling) Which state is on a horse?

Me: (realizing that I've been had -- I do what all smart moms do at this point -- I give up) I don't know...

DD: Maine!!!!

Ahh....HOMOPHONES!!! I get it now!!!

I make a mental note to thank Marie and her All About Homophones book for this moment in my day.

Gotta love it when they are learning!

Tags: homophones

Comment by Marie Rippel on March 6, 2009 at 12:15pm: I love it!! Hehehe!

In response to your post, I added two new homophone games:

http://www.thechatterbee.com/forum/topics/new-game-the-homophone-car
http://www.thechatterbee.com/forum/topics/new-game-talk-in-homophones

Comment by Bcontent on March 6, 2009 at 2:13pm: Pretty funny!!!

Comment by Karie Pratt on March 6, 2009 at 6:07pm: That's Great!!! LOL

Comment by Cindy P. on March 9, 2009 at 12:12am: Your conversation with your daughter is a classic!

Comment by Merry on March 12, 2009 at 11:49pm: ROTFLOL! Oh, that is priceless! Merry :-)

Comment by Julia Schlenker on March 27, 2009 at 9:10pm: I hope you are keeping this in a journal or something permanent for posterity.

We just read the book entitled Dear Deer and it is all about homophones. My 7yo thinks it is the greatest thing to trick me with homophones.

Comment by Who Me? on March 28, 2009 at 1:23am: Yes, it was a classic moment! I'm going to find a way to keep it in a scrapbook for sure! :-) Thanks for all the wonderful feedback.

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