It's official.....I'm NOT smarter than a Fifth grader, but Google is

Homework................

Kids hate it, the last thing they want to do after being in a classroom all day is come home & sit some more and complete more schoolwork tasks................

Parents loathe it, it makes us into the bad guy insisting that they complete the task assigned to them. And when your child asks for help you realise how unhelpful you actually are.

This week the boys homework centred around odd & even numbers.

Callum at the moment loves to demonstrate how much he knows by insisting that I only look at his work once he's completed it - I love that his brain is absorbing all the information that is being thrown at him at school.

Rowan....homework's not his favourite thing. So I sit next to him and continually prompt him for what the next number might be or count though the numbers with him or remind him which way number 5 should face (often 5 is backwards).

So with the boys I was able to assist them, but when it came to Ailish's homework it was another story.......

She had to write a 4 lined simile poem.

My thoughts inside my head started shouting.............A what? A Simile? What the heck?

So before she figured out I was a complete fraud & that I indeed did not know everything, I quickly snuck off and Googled simile.

Luckily for me Google knew what it was and I was able to sneek back and offer some insightful thoughts about what she needed to write.

Google - every parents best friend.

What did my parents do when they got stumped by a fifth grader? I'm really not sure.....maybe mum said "go ask your father" and then maybe dad said "go ask your mother" and out of frustration I gave up asking.

And just in case you want to know......

Simile - comparing two unlike things Water is as good for me as it is for the garden