Our little Texas Queen

Emma has been learning about Texas this year in first grade. This week her teacher asked the class what the different symbols of Texas were; like the state bird, flower, tree, large mammal, small mammal, etc. Emma kept answering the questions right and the teacher said she would give the class 3 seconds to answer and if nobody else knew then Emma could give the answer. Emma said she had to cover her mouth so she wouldn't blurt out the answer too early. The only one she didn't know was the state song. When she was leaving school her teacher said, "Good-bye, Texas Queen!" Emma thought that was great. It's a good thing her teacher didn't ask what the state symbols were for the other 49 states because they would have been there a while. Emma knows most of those too. She and Sophie quizzed Steve all the way driving home from Utah last summer to keep him awake. He would usually guess Mockingbird or Cardinal and he was right 25% of the time. Sometimes trivia comes in handy.