Tonight The Daughter went out to dinner with a friend which was great... because The Son and I had dinner and he told me this amazing story:

He said today he went to math class and when they came into the room, the teacher had marked a few of the tables in the room indicating that these were the tables allocated for the class. The tables were marked with beanie bears.

When the group of 6th graders came in, of course, the discussion turned to the beanie babies on the table and why they were there, most likely, for, gasp 6TH GRADERS. The teacher then told them this story:

Her group of second graders had come in earlier in the day and needed "something" to do basic matching. She asked the second graders, out of the animals represented by the beanie babies, to each pick two that were the same.

Everyone started to make their pick and one of the little girls picked a lion and a duck. All the other children picked zebras and zebras or bears and bears. After their selection, the kids had to say why they picked their pair. During this, the teacher was thinking she needed to work more with the little girl. When she asked the little girl about her match, the girl told her that they were both daddies.

A lion and a green headed duck.

-Nuff Said