Back to School Night

Tonight was Back to School night at John's school. We got to meet his new teacher and some of the parents of his new classmates. His new teacher is very interesting and I think she will challenge John this year. 

Hanging outside his classroom were these two pictures. 

It says Jogging, Ocean, Has a sister and Nice. I love all the words he picked. 

I really like this one. It is math about John. Plus I like how one shoe is red and one is blue. 

Math problems

John is pretty good at math. They have just started adding two digit numbers together with regrouping (or carrying over, like how I learned to add). Anyway, he is always impressed with how I can do his math problems in my head. And sometimes he likes to quiz me. "What's 100 plus 100?" I'll answer and he will be amazed and will try to come up with a "harder" question. "What's 200 plus 200?" He cracks me up. This morning he says "What's 10 times 10?" I tell him 100. He grins and says "What's 100 times 100?" I tell him 1,000. He says "I asked a kid on the playground. He said 100. That's easy. But then I asked him what's 100 times 100 and he didn't know. And he was like a fourth grader!" I laughed and said "Your school only goes to third grade." John said "Oh. Well he was a third grader."

Age

In the car on the way home tonight, Gillian tried to tell John and I that she was 7 years old. John said "Gill, you are three. I'm six. And when I'm seven then you will be four. And when I'm eight, then you will be five." Gillian continued to argue with him while he was talking "No, I'm six. You not six, I six." she said. John was doing a great job with telling Gillian how old she would be and hold old he would be. So I asked him "John, how old will you be with Gillian is 10?" I stumped him. He didn't know how to respond. I asked him "How old are you?" He said "Six!" "How old is Gillian?" He said "Three!" I then asked him "What is six take away three?" He thought for a little bit and then said "Three!" "That's right. You are three years older than Gillian. Now think about it, how old will you be if Gillian is 10?" He counted to ten then added three more and yelled "Thirteen! I'll be thirteen! That was hard! I had to use all my fingers and then three more!" Love our little math lesson in the car tonight.