What is the State of Florida

It is never too late to properly learn about U.S. geography from a group of kindergarteners. You will simply be amazed as to how much you really do not know!

This morning a group of energetic kindergarteners came to my office. We sat around and chatted. I ask them what they were learning about today in class.

“We are learning about the country,” said one little girl.

“The country is a very big subject. Do any of you know the states that make up the country?” I asked.

“Alaska!” one girl spoke up enthusiastically.

“Excellent,” I said thinking this was one smart group of kiddos.

“Tampa,” chimed in one little boy. “Only seventeen people live there and they have a lot of sky scrapers.”

“Pennsylvania,” yelled a little girl. “The people who live there work with boxes.” She added all knowingly.

From the back of the group came, “Mexico, there are not that much people there though.”

“New Mexico,” added another young lad. “But I don’t know why they call it that.”

“Puerto Rico!” someone chimed in, my head now spinning in all directions to keep up with the tidal wave of knowledge.

“South Pole and North Pole,” a girl continued. “In the winter the plants die and about ninety people live there.”

“Atlantis is the biggest one and Hawaii is the smallest one!” sagely stated one child in the front.

Then a little girl stunned the group into silence with this omniscious insight, “Australia is like a little forest with animals. Artists work there and plants die and animals migrate to Florida.”

As the silence unfolded the academic frenzy dissipated from the capsules of knowledge sitting around me. Their faces content with their show of scholastic abilities. The bell rang. The spell broke. The kids left. Tonight, tonight I thought to myself. Let there be a Daily Double under US Geography for $1000.