The Inside of a Cow's Eye
Hello to everyone.
Xavier had a busy day ending an short, but exciting scholastic week.
He had Monday off. His theory is that teachers do not want kids hopped up on sugar in the classroom the day after Halloween.
On Wednesday, he excitedly informed us that because he has an A in math, he needs to only do half the problems every night, either the odd ones or the even ones. Rebecca and I had each an email from his teacher confirming this.
He was one of three students in his class with an A grade, and of the three, the only boy. We celebrated by taking him out to The Melting Pot for chocolate fondue.
Today, Xavier had a rally for the volleyball team, a school assembly and after that a science project: the dissection of a cow eye.
His teacher emailed a plea for parents to come and help. I signed up. Help involved setting up the work area and prepping the cow eyes. We parents also handed out latex gloves to the third graders. During the dissection, we helped out where we could, either answering questions, helping with parts of the dissection and often encouraging the students to make that first snip with the scissors.
Nearly all the students, boys and girls including Xavier, were put off when they opened their kits and asked to remove the cow eye and place it on their tray.
After the students got past the cutting of the eye in half, most of the squeamishness had gone. With some encouragement, Xavier overcame his aversion. (As we drove to school this morning, he was excited and thinking only he and his teacher were happy about the science class today. Turns out, the cow eye did not appear as he expected).
He and his lab partner got through the dissection and Xavier was able to correctly answer questions posed to the class.