Time in the Classroom

I'm doing a unit with my younger students on surveys and questionnaires.

Today I asked a kid an extension question to one of his survey questions. He had already written, "How do you get to school in the morning?" and since I wanted him to extend, I pointed, pointedly, to my wrist (where a watch would be, thinking it was the international symbol for time).

He was confused.

Another kid helped him out though by shouting, "Time! You moron!"

(Well said.)

"Yes", I replied. "What is a question
we could ask your peers
about time
as it relates
to your question?"

(I'm really hoping he gets the hint that I want him to ask, "How long does it take you to get to school?", "What time do you wake up on school days?", "What time do you go to bed on school nights?" or something, you know, related.



He paused.

Then his face lit up.

"How many people own a time machine?!"

I really wish he was joking.
I know he wasn't because he proceeded to write it down as part of his classwork.

Here is a statue so not erected in this child's honour. Sigh.

And that's just another day in my neck of the woods.