Lessons in Learning

Jackson was reading the dictionary a couple of days ago.

This morning, he told Katie that she's made up of tiny kells. You know, like skin kells, nerve kells and blood kells.

It took me a while to realize that he forgot that rule about the e following a c makes the c the soft sound.

Oh, cells! He was so sure that they were kells it was hard to convince him.

He loves to read and learn new things, but I have to remember that he's still learning. Punctuation is another problem. He reads something and gets a totally different meaning than what is intended.

Here's an example. He told me that sea horses don't look like horses after he read this, but that they look like fish.

"Yes, a sea horse is a fish, even though it doesn't look much like one. Except for it's head, it doesn't look much like a horse either."

He didn't pay attention to the punctuation and read it like this:

"Yes, a sea horse is a fish, even though it doesn't look much like one, except for it's head. It doesn't look much like a horse either."

Totally different meaning.