Every Sunday at religious school I put up a different question on a whiteboard in our faculty Resource Room, as a team-building exercise for the teachers and teacher's aides to answer. Over the past three years, the questions (and answers) have ranged from serious to silly, to enlightening to surface. They're things like:
What living person would you most want to have lunch with?
What is the first CD/cassette/record you ever bought?
What's your favorite book?
What did you have for breakfast?
If you could have any superhero power, what would it be?
The morning of a pancake breakfast at temple, I had put "What is your favorite kind of pancake?"
Xander had accompanied me and chose the marker color in which I wrote.
At home, later that day, he wrote the exact same question on the kids' white board and called it "Temple at Home."
Today's Temple at Home question was so telling of who he is:
What is your favorite math problem?
His is "16+14=30," because can add up big numbers.
Jonathan's is "i3<9u=i<3u," because it ends in "I love you."
I thought long and hard about mine, but finally wrote:
"1+3+6=10"
Why? Because the ages of Connor + Ari +Xander equals the number of years Jonathan and I have been married!
I love the project of your home questions.
ReplyDeleteXander's is the question/answer of a SCHOLAR
Jonathan's is the question/answer of a PROFESSOR
Michal's is the question/answer of a RABBI