EGGcellent

Now that we had our poem, I needed the work.

There were 30 words, one per student. My idea was to have each kid write a word which would then be embroidered onto the quilt's border. My son had told me that the class was learning cursive, and I had seen him practice a few times before bed, excited by his creation of fancy-looking words. Cursive seemed like the perfect thing to do--that is until I visited the class, arms filled with a stack of paper, ready to execute.

The teacher let me know that the class had learned just two letters.

"Oh."

(oops)

"We've learned how to write egg and bell, too," my son added.

And come to think of it, that's all my son had ever written. Egg and bell were on pieces of scrap paper all over our home.

Thankfully, I had prepared worksheets with the example words written in cursive. The kids simply copied it in their own writing, and the work got done in no time.

Fancy that.