Tomatoes and Latin???

Stennes is filling out his Latin conjugation sheet, and I thought that it was quite a contrast: Latin and tomatoes. I hope that his schoolwork brings forth good fruit as the tomato plant did. Latin is quite a challenge, especially since there are limited offerings for children. Right now the older three are working through a high school book together. We should be done with the basics in November and move into the second book, which will be translating some of Cicero's writings. We have learned so much together through this course. Not only is our own language becoming more concise and meaningful to us, but we are learning how to eat the Latin elephant: one bite at a time. Sometimes that elephant sure is tough to chew, but I believe the final results of mental discipline and language development will be worth it all.