The best laid plans...

Term vacation is over. It's back to school again.

During the term break, while thinking of ways to help Dominic with his writing, we hatched a sneaky plan. 

We decided that, before the school re-starts, we will practice him on writing about the most likely topic they will write on on the first day of school. It was very easy to guess the topic. No doubt it would be: "What I Did on My Vacation"

So we made him write on that topic one day ahead, and he did very well on the practice writing.  We were confident he wouldn't do so badly when the teacher asks them to write about it.

When Dominic came home from school, our first question was:

Daddy: Did the teacher ask you to write?

Dominic: Yes.

Daddy: Did she ask you to write about what you did on your vacation?

Dominic: No. 

Daddy: (surprised) Hmm...

Dominic: I wrote about the planets.

Daddy:  Oh? Did she say you can write about anything?

Dominic: Yes. She said write about anything...anything we did when there was no school.

 

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