Young Astronomer Gifts

"I count 4,392,292,293,291, how about you?"

"Have you been on the moon again, young man?"

'The creative process works best with a relaxed brain, so I'm letting my mind wander to let a solution drift in.'

"If a third grader knows the answer, how much of a problem can it really be?"

'Tastes like cherry kool-aid, what's it do?'

'What goes up, must come down!' 'Not if you give it enough thrust, to send it flying forever across the face of the universe.'

'Son, it's time we had that little talk about ornithology and entomology.'

"You know what happens when you make good grades? They send you to another school called college."

Imagination Navigation.

'A Great Big Bang. An I-Can-Read Cosmology Book'

Two kids watch a duck swim past their window in the rain

"Police? My son and his friends were playing, building a moon rocket. . . I believe that they actually blasted off!"

'I want to chuck all the spelling and math and just get back to playing with blocks.'

'Wow! School's only been out for ten minutes, and I've already forgotten everything I learned.'

I think he knows something that we don't know about the uranium molecule.

'It was bound to happen - they're beginning to think like binary computers.'

'Hold it Billy - There are no praying mantises in school.'

'Tommy's book reports are like no other.'

A Poem about Sand

"Finally...school starts next week."

"Dinosaurs are cool!"

"In pre-school I was an overachiever. Now, in first grade, math is threatening my reputation."

"This is my last day. My parents found a more expensive school on the East Side."

'Neighbors...friends...artists models.'

"When I was your age the Big Dipper was over THERE."

"And I'd recommend this book to anyone in the market for a free plush toy."

'Ever since you told your son he has blue blood, he's been telling everyone he's a Martian.'

Child with a junior chemistry set in the complaints department.

2000 words was tough, but doable. Billy would play the picture paints a 1000 words card, twice!

'I can explain - I'm doing a school project on the breaking-point of glass . . .'

"I got an A+ on my math test! I'm updating my resume."

"I was master of all I surveyed... then they hit me with second grade."

"Some people call this an elementary school. Not me. I call it pre-med."

"I'll look into it, but you're still in the first grade. Normally, they don't give student loans until you're in college."