1. It has a trunk.
2. It has tusks.
3. It has big ears.
After finishing, it suddenly occurred to him that his classmates would guess it was an elephant, so he asked me to help him come up with another clue. After an unfruitful brainstorming session, I finally just handed him the idea of telling the class that the thing was extinct.
Big mistake.
What followed was a solid hour of woe, as Trevi mourned the extinction of the Woolly Mammoth, and lamented the fact that he will never, ever see a real, live one. He was seriously sad. I even took pictures.
As Trevi worked through his feelings of loss regarding the Mammoth, he came out with some doozies. Among them were these (must be read tearfully for full effect):
"I wish I was already a scientist, because then I would already know about Woolly Mammoths being extinct, and you wouldn't have to tell me and make me sad!"
"At least I saw a Woolly Mammoth statue in the desert! Some people never even get to see that!"
"Do you think there's even a tiny chance that they might be able to find one that's hiding somewhere? The world is really big."
"But cats will never be extinct, right?"
1 comment:
A friend of mine has a similar story of when she told her daughter that dinosaurs were extinct. So cute, and what a sweet memory to share with him when he gets older!
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