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The Village School by Ferdinand de Braekeleer

Some thoughts for the new homeschool year… 

First of all, have no fear and be of good cheer!

It can't be as bad as the woman above has it.
Honestly, do you have a strange man dropping fruit
from the window into your classroom?

The Teacher by Theodore Bernhard De Heuve

At least you don't have that many students in your home 

OF THE SAME AGE…

but aren't they adorable, just the same?

and

Thirdly, 

you do not have to be perfect this year, 

just perfectly willing…

The Teacher by Chardin

The Teacher 

Lord, who am I to teach the way

To little children day by day,

So prone myself to go astray?

I teach them KNOWLEDGE, but I know

How faint they flicker and how low

The candles of my knowledge glow.

I teach them POWER to will and do,

But only now to learn anew

My own great weakness through and through.

I teach them LOVE for all mankind

And all God's creatures, but I find

My love comes lagging far behind.

Lord, if their guide I still must be,

Oh let the little children see

The teacher leaning hard on Thee.

~ by Leslie Pinckney Hill

The Village School by Alfred Rankley

And last, but most important, 

start each day with this and 

you will not be alone in your endeavors…

"And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." 

~ Deuteronomy 6:6-7