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All I Didn't Know I Learned from My Kindergartner

By Gwen Kopetzky

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By using a combination of those tactics -- both inside and outside the classroom -- I'm happy to say my daughter and I successfully graduated kindergarten. For me, it was even sweeter the second time around.

The Pre-Kindergarten Parental Entrance Exam

Test your wisdom out on these kindergarten stumpers:

  1. What is the order of the planets in our solar system? If you feel really good about that one, ask yourself which one has "stinky air" and which one is "so hot you'd bubble like pizza cheese if you landed on it."
  2. Why does soap make bubbles?
  3. What's the difference between a cocoon and a chrysalis?
  4. What's the Spanish word for peanut butter?
  5. Did dinosaurs live where our house is now?
  6. How do dolphins breathe through their blowholes? Why don't they have gills instead?
  7. What's the difference between a prairie dog and a gopher?
  8. How do you turn oil into gasoline?
  9. Do spiders sleep with their eyes closed?
  10. Where is the hard stuff that makes deer horns before it comes out of their heads?

Here are a few extras that you might not think are part of the kindergarten curriculum, but you might want to consider how you'd answer:

  1. When you chant during jump rope, what comes after "Cinderella, dressed in yellow?"
  2. Why do some people always bring fruit for their birthdays and nothing good like candy or cupcakes?
  3. How do you know whom to marry?
  4. Why do some people pierce their tongues?
  5. Why do boys go potty standing up?
  6. Why do helicopters go straight up but planes don't?
  7. Why do crabs walk sideways?

Now, go study!

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