Teaching boys...

Is it possible?

Yesterday I came to the conclusion that it was not, and the many years ahead of teaching my four looked as though they would stretch into  f o r e v e r.  But today was better.  Somehow or other the  6 times table clicked into one boy's brain, and some impressive vocabulary sprang out of another's mouth.  Both in one day.  There is hope! It's amazing what a little talk with Dad can do.  Both for teacher and taught alike. :)

Perhaps it isn't fair to pick on the boys.  Girls have their days, too, let me tell you.  But there is something about seat work and boys...they just don't work well together.  Now, give 'em an ax and a pile of firewood to split...then you see some real action.

I just found this picture, taken a few weeks back.  It just proves yesterday's dismal thoughts to be more emotional than accurate...

That's a sight that makes my heart glad, and encourages me to press on. 

In the next few weeks we'll be wrapping a few subjects up, and by the end of May we hope to be all finished.  Just in time, too, since the addition should start about then.  I suspect that for the boys, that is when the learning will really be happening.