“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.” -Edward Everett Hale
While I continue to work with the kiddos throughout the year on various academic subjects, the full brunt of the work began yesterday. We use a classical education model, mostly because both my kids hunger for literature (even the back of the cereal box or the label on the shampoo – although that is just reading, not really literature).
Yesterday was their first day as 5th Graders beginning the logic stage of their education. This requires so very much more planning than the last couple of years, mostly because I now know where the pitfalls are in our whole homeschooling processes. I think I finally have figured out how much I can push each of them every day and exactly how much involvement and hand-holding they still want from me.
In any case, I just kept repeating my new mantra from Edward Everett Hale and plowed through the day.
Surprise! It was probably the best day ever for us! Focus and Concentration were the words of the day. The only hard part was that they wanted double history and double logic lessons (which meant I was still reading and working with them past 9pm). They were happy; I was dog tired.
I am only one, but I am one.
