Last Days and Hard Choices

It was the last day of Nate's First Grade EEE (Enriched Educational Experience) today! However, Nate's class at Paxton Keeley also had a full day of fun planned--a trip to Smithton park and popsicles, class plays (Nate had a role as cat) and his last art class of the year (his favorite special). Two fun options...that's a tough choice. If they are at school, the students are expected to attend EEE. It is the final day of the year...I'm sure there are things to take home. I told him I think the right choice is to go to EEE, we hadn't told anyone he wasn't going to be there and it's what is expected of him. But, I put the decision in his hands. I did realize it would be hard to turn down a trip to the park and popsicles, so I offered to take him to the same park and let him pick out a treat after taekwondo this evening. In the end, he chose to go to EEE (helped solve their final mystery--in a class with second and third graders and brought a bagful of miscellaneous papers and projects). He then had an awesome taekwondo practice--earning his second stripe on the road to testing for his orange-striped belt! And here we are enjoying orange push-ups at the park!!