Thursday, October 29, 2009

"Some people march to a different drummer--and some people polka."

This sums up Marcus more than any words I could use.


If every single other kid turns in this:




Then Marcus will turn in this:




He followed directions (he folded, he cut), but he followed them in his own little way. The point of the activity was to find a country, put the country on the first flap, the climate of that country on the inside and a description of the climate on the back of the flap. 79 other kids got it done. Marcus crammed all the information on the back flap. And he didn't finish.

Oh, by the way, Marcus is pretty much a super genius.

5 comments:

erin said...

Does Marcus have any other talents.

kristi noser said...

Miss V.,
Erin showed me your blog today.
I am now one of your loyal readers. I love to laugh and your stories are priceless.
Heart,
Mammaknows.

Miss V said...

@erin: he mostly stares off into space or takes an hour to "get out a pen" (he's really reorganizing his notebook). He's so interesting. To talk to him, you might think he's a little slow and if you look at any work that's not math or essays, he seems to reinforce the slow thing. But if it's an essay or math work, he does great work. And if you ask the right questions, you can tell how intelligent he is. He's an enigma.

@kristi:
Hi! Welcome! And thank you!

Anonymous said...

hey sis. love the blog and can't wait to visit ya. darn so much for being anonymous.

erin said...

"If you ask the right questions?" Enough said.