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Teaching Moments

I was in the bathroom when I spied a black spider crawling my way.  I just watched it for a minute.  It kept coming.  Then it hit me that I needed to move or it was going to be on me.  I grabbed a paper and started furiously shaking it at the spider.  It jumped about six inches off the ground and then landed upside down on the ground unmoving.  I shook the paper some more, but the spider didn’t move.  It was playing dead!  I couldn’t believe it.

I went out into the living room to get the kids.  What a great teaching moment!  “Kids!  There’s a spider in the bathroom that just played dead!”  I was quite excited.

“Yeah we know that,” my daughter was unmoved.

“I didn’t know that.  How you did you know that?” I demanded.

“We learned it in school.”

“Uh…”

I’m linked with Our Days Homeschool Link up, Hip Homeschool Moms, Time Warp Wife and Women Living Well.

Esther

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6 Comments Filed Under: Homeschooling

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  1. Deb says

    November 19, 2012 at 8:42 am

    Oh my, I wouldn’t be able to move until I was sure the spider was actually DEAD….not just “playing” dead.

    I wouldn’t just shake the paper at it, I’d stomp on that thing….survival of the fittest!!

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  2. Michell says

    November 19, 2012 at 9:09 am

    Hahahaa! Now THAT’S too funny! And I’m sure she walked out of the room as if it was no big deal, right? Kids, you gotta love em’! 😉

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  3. Piper says

    November 19, 2012 at 12:08 pm

    Bahhaaaa!! Sorry couldn’t resist!! You are their teacher, right?? 🙂

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  4. Mari says

    November 19, 2012 at 8:58 pm

    Ha ha ha!!! That made me absolutey made me crack up!!! You are the best teacher, Esther, and don’t ever believe anything different 🙂

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  5. Miss Raquel says

    November 20, 2012 at 10:13 am

    Congrats on winning the Funniest Homeschool Blog award over at hsbapost.com!

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  6. Dawn says

    November 21, 2012 at 7:58 am

    Haha! Too funny and don’t feel bad I had no idea spiders played dead either lol 🙂

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