Hannah's school had their Historical Dinner, and the guest list was very impressive: Amelia Earhart, Ben Franklin, Sacajawea, Pocahontas, Mother Theresa, and both George Washington AND George Washington Carver. Even Confucius and Hammurabi paid a visit. If they all seemed like stuffed shirts, that's because they were (though some, such as Confucius, Hammurabi and Pocahontas were not, strictly speaking, wearing "shirts"). And if the papier-mache heads seemed kind of big and round, well, these are mostly pretty smart people who need lots of room inside for all those big ideas.
It's a good thing no food was actually served at this "dinner"; it would be pretty hard to accommodate all those varied culinary requirements and tastes.
Hannah's "guest" was Albert Einstein, no less, and it was the older Einstein who graced the party, gray mustache and pipe and all. Why did she pick him? I hadn't known, beforehand, that she had even heard of him. (I hadn't, when I was six, but she knows a lot more now than I did then, so I shouldn't be surprised.) She said he was a scientist, and since she wants to be a scientist herself, she wanted to do him. Fair enough. Once she got to researching him, she got even more interested -- see, one of her fondest hopes is to someday build a time machine, and during a big discussion of just what it was that Einstein did in terms of science, she realized that his work is a pretty good starting place to understanding time and energy. (She needs to build a time machine, she says, in order to go back and find out more about the dinosaurs, such as what color they really were and so forth. She especially wants to find a maiasaurus nest.)
Each kid had to write a limerick about their "guest" at the "dinner." Here's Hannah's Einstein limerick:
There was an old man named Einstein,
Who came up with a theory of time:
E=MC2
He had really wild hair,
That eccentric Albert Einstein.
It's a good thing no food was actually served at this "dinner"; it would be pretty hard to accommodate all those varied culinary requirements and tastes.
Hannah's "guest" was Albert Einstein, no less, and it was the older Einstein who graced the party, gray mustache and pipe and all. Why did she pick him? I hadn't known, beforehand, that she had even heard of him. (I hadn't, when I was six, but she knows a lot more now than I did then, so I shouldn't be surprised.) She said he was a scientist, and since she wants to be a scientist herself, she wanted to do him. Fair enough. Once she got to researching him, she got even more interested -- see, one of her fondest hopes is to someday build a time machine, and during a big discussion of just what it was that Einstein did in terms of science, she realized that his work is a pretty good starting place to understanding time and energy. (She needs to build a time machine, she says, in order to go back and find out more about the dinosaurs, such as what color they really were and so forth. She especially wants to find a maiasaurus nest.)
Each kid had to write a limerick about their "guest" at the "dinner." Here's Hannah's Einstein limerick:
There was an old man named Einstein,
Who came up with a theory of time:
E=MC2
He had really wild hair,
That eccentric Albert Einstein.
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