Our 5 year old DD just shocked us!!

[NCSunshine]

She was in the kitchen going across the floor diagonally saying "a bishop moves diagonally".  DH then ask her how many a pawn, queen, king, and a knight can move.  The only one she got wrong was the pawn with six spaces.

We ask, where did you learn that.  "Mr. Mike taught me" he is her pre-school teacher.  We were totally shocked.  Wonder what they will teach her next?  Guess it was a fun way to learn directions or something.

I can't even remember the moves all the time, I write them down and have them beside me when playing chess (which we do very very little of).

Has anyone else had their kids learn something at a pre-school that you would have never thought to teach them?

[Acts 2:38 girl]

I remember my Mom teaching my 4 yr. old sister chemistry!  H2O=water, etc.  She knew about 25 of those.  It was during the time od , "Their brains are like little computers and absorb all the info they can"  Makes good sense, but what 4 yr old ever needed to know chemistry??!!  She didn't even know the alphabet yet!! :rolleyes:

[vjm1639]

When my son was 2 years old we started trying to teach him colors, his ABCs, how to count, etc...easy things we figured he'd learn by simply hearing all the time. We taught him colors by having different colored days....on Red day we'd put his red tennies on, red underwear, red shirt, eat red apples or red strawberries, color with red paint...that sort of thing...and he knew all the 8 box of Crayola colors plus white, grey, and pink at 2 years old.  We started doing numbers at the same time...everything in threes...we'd give him three of everything and slowly count..1..2...3... and try to get him to repeat it.   He would look at us like we were nuts.  We just kept on figuring one day it would "click".  About a week after we started this we were sitting around one night watching television and he pulled a large bean bag chair under a hope chest I had in the family room.  He climbed on the chest, stood up and yelled...1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12..AIRBORNE...and jumped....... His Dad and I stared at each other in shock...  12?   Then we realized at that time that's how far they counted on Sesame Street....poor child probably felt sorry for his parents who could only count to three!  
 
LOL

[NCSunshine]

When my son was 2 years old we started trying to teach him colors, his ABCs, how to count, etc...easy things we figured he'd learn by simply hearing all the time. We taught him colors by having different colored days....on Red day we'd put his red tennies on, red underwear, red shirt, eat red apples or red strawberries, color with red paint...that sort of thing...and he knew all the 8 box of Crayola colors plus white, grey, and pink at 2 years old.  We started doing numbers at the same time...everything in threes...we'd give him three of everything and slowly count..1..2...3... and try to get him to repeat it.   He would look at us like we were nuts.  We just kept on figuring one day it would "click".  About a week after we started this we were sitting around one night watching television and he pulled a large bean bag chair under a hope chest I had in the family room.  He climbed on the chest, stood up and yelled...1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12..AIRBORNE...and jumped....... His Dad and I stared at each other in shock...  12?   Then we realized at that time that's how far they counted on Sesame Street....poor child probably felt sorry for his parents who could only count to three!  
 
LOL

That is just too funny.

When my oldest DD was in third grade she had 4 word problems to do.  She didn't understand it and ask for my help.  Of course I'll help, I said feeling all confident that I would know how to do it  

Well, I read and re-read, but never really understood the problems :confused:.    We got 2 out of 4 right, gosh I can't even do third grade math

[julecav]

My 3 year old was scratching her arm the other day and my mom asked her what was wrong.  She told my mother that she had dry itchy skin and needed Elidel to make it feel better.  She also asked for a nice glass of rich chocolate Ovaltine.  It's amazing what they pick up also makes me realize that she's watching a bit much TV.  It's a hoot when we go grocery shopping she spouts off product slogans and tells me what we need.

[wynot]

My 3 year old was scratching her arm the other day and my mom asked her what was wrong. She told my mother that she had dry itchy skin and needed Elidel to make it feel better. She also asked for a nice glass of rich chocolate Ovaltine. It's amazing what they pick up also makes me realize that she's watching a bit much TV. It's a hoot when we go grocery shopping she spouts off product slogans and tells me what we need.

Our 10 yr old would make the advertisers puff up with pride.  She sings radio jingles, remembers all the catch phrases, etc..
 
Drug ads, paper towels, toilet paper, if it has a jingle, she will repeat it.  In restaurants, stores - all of a sudden, you'll hear her blurt it out.
 
She has distinct tendancies of my mother, who talks during the TV shows and is quiet during commercials.    How she missed this next example is beyond me...
 
A local radio station has the call letters WFRE where they say that everything in Frederick (next city over) starts with FRE.  She never quite connected THAT with FREderick, but she knew that her school 'radio' newsroom was WFRE (Fountain Rock Elementary), which she thought was part of the radio station she listens to.  The other day, she tells me - "Did you know that Frederick begins with FRE, too?"

[vjm1639]

That is just too funny.
 
When my oldest DD was in third grade she had 4 word problems to do. She didn't understand it and ask for my help. Of course I'll help, I said feeling all confident that I would know how to do it
 
Well, I read and re-read, but never really understood the problems :confused:. We got 2 out of 4 right, gosh I can't even do third grade math

LOL...I don't even want to think about how old my son was when he passed me in the math department!    ;>  
 
Kids do say the funniest things at the funniest times....
My DS's kindergarten teacher had a sign on her door....
"Don't believe half of what you hear about this place and I won't believe half of what I hear about home!"
 
hehehe

[dee106]

my son 19 at the time was praticing his sign langauge while the two year old nephew was learning the abc song, by the third round of the abc song the two yr old was doing it in sign and singing it with no mistakes!

[Miss-Teri]

I came home one day and my then 4 year old son gave me details on how to make a hollowed egg Easter decoration.  He had been watching Martha Stewart, lol.  The thing that had me stumped for a bit was when he said, "First you have to kill the egg."  Finally I realized Martha had said to DYE the egg!!!

[birol]

I have to now state something too, everyone has wonderful stories !

One day I came home from work, and sat in front of the PC (We were in Saudi Arabia , and the pc was a 80286 with 2 MB of RAM and a whooping 40 MB hard dsisk with double floppies ! ).

My son comes on and sits on may lap as he usually does when I am doing stuff on the PC, or playing. He was around 3 to 4 years old or so ! as I am getting rady to play or whatever, he goes "Daddy daddy, see this, I want to show you something" ANd he starts typing something, I go, ohh how cool , my son learned to type gibberish ! and I am looking out to the window (bad daddy I know). And he gets my attention back by yanking my head with his little hands, look daddy look what I typed. Me still not paying attention , I go (without even looking) yeah very good son. And he says noo, you have to look. and I see what he typed, you won't believe it :

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It was quite astonishing how he learned it and could type it at that age Yup, he still knows a lot about computers

[vjm1639]

I "First you have to kill the egg." Finally I realized Martha had said to DYE the egg!!!

ROTFL...oh my gosh, just got a funny look from a guy walking past my office as I busted out laughing reading this one!    Way too cute.  :>

[NCSunshine]

I have to now state something too, everyone has wonderful stories !

One day I came home from work, and sat in front of the PC (We were in Saudi Arabia , and the pc was a 80286 with 2 MB of RAM and a whooping 40 MB hard dsisk with double floppies ! ).

My son comes on and sits on may lap as he usually does when I am doing stuff on the PC, or playing. He was around 3 to 4 years old or so ! as I am getting rady to play or whatever, he goes "Daddy daddy, see this, I want to show you something" ANd he starts typing something, I go, ohh how cool , my son learned to type gibberish ! and I am looking out to the window (bad daddy I know). And he gets my attention back by yanking my head with his little hands, look daddy look what I typed. Me still not paying attention , I go (without even looking) yeah very good son. And he says noo, you have to look. and I see what he typed, you won't believe it :

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t was quite astonishing how he learned it and could type it at that age Yup, he still knows a lot about computers

Boy that one could be dangerous to your computers health

[NightOwl]

These are really priceless!  When our  kids are young, they havent learned to guard the contents of their minds yet, and we get a wonderful window into how they think.

One day when Alice was 4 and she and I were alone in the house, I was in our basement  doing laundry and suddenly above my head, our piano began to produce the sounds of  the main theme of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony ACCURATELY played.  (It was a record we played often in the evening since Billy and I both  love Beethoven.)

 I could hear Alice singing along.  Very proud of her amazing musical ability, I ran up the stairs to praise her and was stopped  dead in my tracks by what she was singing in perfect rhythm with the tune:

"Cool, Man, cool,Man,
Groovy, groovy,
Cool,  Man, cool, Man
Go, Man, Go!"

It was around then that she turned to me and said her goal in life was to grow up to be  "A Go, Go Dancer and wear Big White Boots."  (She didnt become a GoGo Dancer, but a college professor instead.   (She's got great legs so she'd  probably make more money as a dancer.)  

[birol]

Hilariously funny ! They do and say the weirdest things for an unimaginable reason ! They grow up so fast too, just a few days ago I was asking our kids if they would like a sister or brother and they both said they wanted one, Geeees ! It would be nice to havea baby again but, I had rather have the pleasure of looking at other peoples babies

These are really priceless!  When our  kids are young, they havent learned to guard the contents of their minds yet, and we get a wonderful window into how they think.

One day when Alice was 4 and she and I were alone in the house, I was in our basement  doing laundry and suddenly above my head, our piano began to produce the sounds of  the main theme of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony ACCURATELY played.  (It was a record we played often in the evening since Billy and I both  love Beethoven.)

 I could hear Alice singing along.  Very proud of her amazing musical ability, I ran up the stairs to praise her and was stopped  dead in my tracks by what she was singing in perfect rhythm with the tune:

"Cool, Man, cool,Man,
Groovy, groovy,
Cool,  Man, cool, Man
Go, Man, Go!"

It was around then that she turned to me and said her goal in life was to grow up to be  "A Go, Go Dancer and wear Big White Boots."  (She didnt become a GoGo Dancer, but a college professor instead.   (She's got great legs so she'd  probably make more money as a dancer.)  

[NightOwl]

BIROL, PLEASE  send us your son--clearly, he knew more about computers as a toddler than Billy and I know as adults.   We'd like to keep him for about 3 months.    (And we promise to feed him well!)  :W