The Battle Begins

That's what my brother said as I dropped him off at work this morning - "The battle begins." The day is half over and really, it's not been too much of a battle. Math went well, Language was fun (Mad Libs is such a great way to intro grammar!), and Reading class was a short and sweet combined lesson (splits in math and reading begin tomorrow). Bible is tough because my past years have been full of kids with tons of questions and curiosity about the Bible. I don't see that as much in this class. In fact, one of them gets immediately and obviously grumpy when I say, "Prepare for Bible." I can see he hates it. Pray for me, guys. I don't have the wisdom for this.

I also need wisdom about having Bible class at the beginning of the afternoon. I've packed all of our purely academic classes (both maths, English, and both readings) into the morning when the kids are at their sharpest, but feel like Bible's not getting the energy from the students that it deserves. So far, I can't tell if that's the dynamic of this class or the time slot. I'm very pleased with how well the students are doing with the core academics in the morning, but Christ is more important than math class.