baseball cards, magical fish, and arabic?

Well, we all made it through home schooling yesterday after a long break. I purposed in my heart to extend grace and exercise lots of patience. I think it helped. Actually I know it did. Joshua breezed through everything but swore that making baseball cards after reading Casey At Bat was just too hard. He gets it in his mind that anything having to do with language arts is too hard, but I persisted. Wouldn’t you know it that he had a blast making them and was super proud of his creativity? I was, too.

Meanwhile, Emma G read about a magical fish and what happens when we get greedy. You can ask her. It’s not pretty, but her drawing sure is!

We are nearing the end of our home schooling year for these two. At the kind advice of a friend, I’m trying to get the kid’s input on what they think they need more study on as well as what topics they are interested in. Emma G is undecided, but Joshua wants to learn Arabic. He has a list of languages that he wants to learn NOW, because kids learn so much faster than adults (it’s true and that’s seriously his reason). He decided to tackle Arabic first because that’s the hardest language. I swear this kid is like me in so many ways. By the end of the day, after some lessons on the iPad, he’s undecided on Arabic. Hard? Of course, but I’m cheering him on to not give up because it’s too hard!