My weeks go by like turning a page in a book. I prepared this week for tutoring my last Essentials class of the year. It means 12 weeks have gone by and I will come back in January and tutor 12 more weeks. I have mixed feelings right now. I am a little weary and I feel like it maybe coming across in the last class or two. My creative juices are starting to slow way down. As Alfred said in Veggietales The Rumor Weed, "I need to go home and recharge my batteries." On the other hand, I am going to miss seeing all my lovely families each week. I have been amazed at their genuine excitement to study and listen to things like Sentence Patterns and Sentence Structures, how to diagram a compound sentence, etc. I haven't even began to talk about their writing!! IEW is ingenious in their method to take any child or student and with a few techniques have them writing a "real" paper. In a world where everything can try to tear you down, a child given the confidence to write his own words on a paper is esteeming for him or her. It has been the highlight of each of my weeks to read all their papers. The last papers I will read will be about The Boston Tea Party! How exciting will that be right before Thanksgiving? I just want to break out singing "Onward Christian Soldiers". What mighty warriors these little people will be one day!
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