I should be writing lesson plans....

Just because I'm sure you'll appreciate another Ivan story, our dearest knight in very rusty armor swept in the door and gallantly announced, "I have done my homework! And I read!" Of course, the teacher and student teacher were heartened by this announcement... until one of them beheld his little reading log. Now, the dear knights and princesses and dukes and duchesses of this 3rd grade kingdom are required to read 15 minutes a night 5 days a week (plus reading time in class) for a whole month in order to get a pizza from Pizza Hut. Everyone except for Ivan got a pizza for August. Well, according to Ivan's reading log, he only read 10 minutes. Upon exploring his assignment notebook, it was discovered that the little master of deceit, Ivan the Terrible, had added next to the "15" a dash and the number 10 so that now his assignment notebook read "15-10 minutes." First of all, how dumb can you be? Normally, one would write 10-15, not 15-10. Secondly, it was so incredibly obvious that the page had been worn down in an attempt at erasing the 15. After confronting the impenitent little sinner, it was also discovered that he had written over Janine's purple ink with a thicker blue pen so that the pen would match the inserted "10." The time he took to trace over all the words could have been used to read an extra 5 minutes. He was sentenced into the dungeons of disgrace and assigned to write an apology letter, which he did, most ungraciously and without much thought. Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child...