I tutored my big-boy second grader again today. The same person as my little first grader last year, but he grew a few inches over the summer and has his two front teeth so he does look older. Today as he came in he announced that he's interested in dinosaurs now. Last year it was sharks. He then went on to tell me that he thinks dinosaurs went extinct at least five years ago. I told him that I thought it was quite a bit longer, so he guessed fifty years. The concept of millions went right over his head, but I must admit I have a hard time with millions of years myself. We then had quite a discussion about asteroids and how they might have killed all the dinosaurs. I need to find a good book about dinosaurs. After our reading and math work I allowed him to draw a picture (he much prefers this to playing games) and his picture showed a large dinosaur trying to snatch an airplane out of the sky while the airplane was trying to rescue two people hanging from it. High adventure indeed. After class, I texted my son, who deals in things scientific, and told him what my student had said and he replied that technically the child was right. The dinosaurs did become extinct at least five years ago.
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