On the inside cabinet door in our study area I’ve taped up bits and pieces of information that have inspired me throughout our homeschool years. Poetry, an encouraging note, a verse from scripture, drawings the children made, and photos of special activities all take up this space. This is one poem that found its way inside our cupboard door:
A Student’s Math Worksheet
- This school year is like a Math worksheet
- The Master has handed to you.
- The four basic functions are needed,
- In the work you are given to do.
- Some problems require addition
- Of diligence, virtue, and faith.
- And some of them call for subtraction
- Of laziness, carelessness, hate.
- For choosing the right in decisions,
- Division you’ll need to employ.
- Make good use of multiplication,
- With cheerfulness, kindness, and joy.
- Check over your work and be accurate;
- Small errors affect the whole sheet.
- And guard against streaks of indifference,
- Or splotches of ugly conceit.
- What note do you think will the Master
- Inscribe when the school year is gone;
- On your sheet: ”Unsatisfactory”,
- Or will He write, “Very Well Done”?
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