Restoration

As is my usual with Mondays, I try to accomplish a week's worth in a day. Zeke and I had a couple major things to do in school. The first thing he needed to do was write a thank you note to a relative for some Christmas presents. This teaches gratitude and grammar. He has not wanted to do it for a few days and so I suspended his computer privileges until the note was written. No recriminations or judgment involved; just patience. Today his resistance waned and he wrote the note from dictation.

Then we tackled a couple math lessons. We're tracking about mid-December. I looked at how luxuriously long January is and believed that we have some hope for getting caught up to the syllabus by month's end. He has a strong will and internal desire tending toward perfectionism [gee? where'd he get that?] and we often butt heads. I'm finding this teaching thing to be a learning experience for me as well and a source of great joy and pride in what he's accomplishing.