spiders

The preschool teacher asked me this week if we read a lot of fact books to Nate because he seems to want to throw out facts quite often in class. I hadn't thought that we did anymore than any other book. Since she has made this comment I have had more of an ear for how many times Nate does throw out facts. I am not sure where he gets his facts, but I do know that sometimes they are just things that make sense. Here is an example. The other morning Nate was talking about spiders. He mentioned that spiders like basements. I said, yeah I think they do like dark places like basements. He then said: "mom you know there are more spiders in the world then there are houses." I asked him where he learned that and he said he knows because there are spiders is everyone's basement. While we were out on the swings with the neighbors Nate said, "do you not that some daddy long legs bite?" I said, I didn't know that and asked him where he learned it. "After some thought he said from dad. Later I asked dad if he knew this and he said he did not. The neighbor at the time confirmed that she had actually heard this fact before.