Friday, November 16, 2012

Thinking Outside the Box

The following was a question in Primus' Daily Language Review today:

Circle the word that does NOT belong.
tractor    barn    skyscraper    haystack

She circled tractor.  Her explanation was that the other 3 are things that don't move.

I love that I had the opportunity to hear and validate her reasoning! 

Whenever something like this comes up, I make sure and explain to her that if she was at "regular" school, she would have had it marked wrong.  "Regular" school doesn't usually accommodate for this kind of out-of-the-box thinking.


In other, unrelated news, she found out about the concept of "A+."  I had already been putting how many she got wrong (or "100%" if they were all right) at the top of her tests.  She asked that I start putting A+ also when she earns it.  She was SOOOO excited today to see that scrawled on top of her math page this morning.  It's the simple rewards that make a difference, I suppose.

2 comments:

  1. Out of curiosity... How will you prepare her for college/college applications, where they will depend on SAT/ACT scores for admittance? The SAT/ACT tests depend on the in-the-box thinking. I understand the benefit of the out of the box thinking, but are you explaining the "correct" answer as well?

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  2. Of course!
    She will also learn that academic life and real life don't always operate in the same way.

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