A couple of updates.
The book order form came back from class earlier and SonofV was pretty excited to order something. It was either the talking dog tag or a hardback edition of four stories by Edgar Allen Poe. A brief aside--when I was his age, give or take, I bought with my own money, the complete works of Edgar Allen Poe. I didn't read them all, some were boring to me. But some others made a
permanent mark on me. The Cask Of Amontillado. Hop-Frog. The Tell-Tale Heart. The Raven. I could almost feel the goosebumps just typing that...oooohhh. You can guess which choice I encouraged!
Regarding math:
He has permitted me to flog him with a multiplication grid 12x12 each night. We time it. Half the battle is getting him to consent. Half the battle is that he doesn't like School House Rock's songs for 4 and 8 (Figure eight, is really great ice skater...). Well, tonight he was *on*! He beat his previous record by over four minutes!! He completed the whole grid, zero errors in under ten minutes. That is success folks!
We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.