Home Learning - two children stare into a blazing white TV screen.
Me: Ill write it first for you. Keir: OK. Me [thinking]: Hmmm. Me [to Camille]: How do you draw a lowecase Q?
Me: Lets make the best paper plane! Keir: Yeah! Rowan: Yeah. Me [concentrating]: OK, so this fold, and then this one... . Me: Hey! Where are you both?! the children [from out of shot]: building a den
Keir: Look! I invented a new language! I can write secret codes! Me: Wow, cool! What are you going to write? Keir: Hmmm... I dont know.
Me, in front of a board with A B C written on it: Come on so, this is basic stuff. Keir: Um... verdana? Me [shouting furiously]: VERDANA?!
Keir: Daddy... you know how there are square numbers? Are there numbers which are, like, square bit in 3D? A 3D square? Me: Uh... yeah. We
Me: 2 times 2 is two squared, 2 times 2 times 2 is 2 cubed. Let me get some paper and I can - Keir [talking over me]: Can you get POO cubed? POO times POO times POO?!
An alien holds up a viewing device: Lord Zarg! After millenia of study our linguists have decoded the ancient texts! Lord Zarg: In my lifetime?! Read them to me! First Alien, reading the tablet: Poo, smelly poo, Rowan is a poo head, I want poo for tea...
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