A Poem from the Past

As I was searching through some things that my beautiful MIL had passed down to me from her teaching days, I came across this poem about a one room school and I wanted to share it:


One,two,three,four
Walls, some windows and a door,
Some battered desks, a dunces stool
Add up to the one-room school.


An iron stove that made us doze–
While one side baked, the other side froze.
A teacher’s desk, a hickory switch
That sometimes made our britches itch.


The teacher we all loved so well,
Who taught us how to add and spell.
From first grade on through graduation,
She nurtured our young education.


Though few there were in any grade,
We learned to be quite unafraid
Of what a higher grade might bring,
For each year we heard everything.


And if we could not spell a word
We should have learned while still in third
We could regain what we were missing
By knowing, later, when to listen.


We loved the little one-room school,
A citadel for sage and fool.
We learned of life, we learned endeavor,
But most, we learned to live together.


~Martin T. Bergsjo


I thought that was just GREAT! It does sound like our sweet home classrooms and co-ops. We learn well how to live and learn together!!! Hope you are having LOADS of summer fun.


Stay Cool and Cozy!!!
Charlotte

Our Mission

This is a poem that I had written this past year and have decided that it is our homeschooling "Mission Statement" and I wanted to share it with you:


Our Home sweet Home school


We live what the world calls
an “old fashioned” life
Our home is filled
with books to read
To guide the direction and
the dreams that we dream
All for a boy that will travel, someday
To a destination known only to God.
He will leave us, in time
This boy of ours
To journey along this life
That is his….
Sure footed as he follows
His path.
Secure in the knowledge
That God is with him.
Largely due to the time we have spent
Guiding his dreams
Reading those books
Defining the will of God for his days
In this little house
With our “old fashioned” ways. ©


~Charlotte spears
  March 17, 2010


I hope that you are having a wonderful day, wherever you are and that your homeschool paths are taking a Godly direction, also. This is a serious mission that we are on, as well as one that is fun and challenging. Our children are worth the effort as they are our inheretance from the Lord. Take time to teach them well so they will be prepared for their journey ahead.


Until Next Time~Stay Cozy,
Charlotte

New Beginnings

A great big HELLO to my blog friends, new and old. In the interest of becoming more uniform in my blogging, I am moving all three of my blogs of interest to Blogger for hosting. This has not been an easy decision for me and it might take a while to get everything organized to my satisfaction, but I truly feel that this is best for me. Hopefully, this will inspire me to post more often and result in my posts becoming more cohesive. I might re-post some items from my former blog once in a while, but my goal is to simply create a whole new blog from "soup to nuts". Hang on, this could be a bumpy ride until all of the kinks are worked out~LOL!!!


Hugs to all, keep it cozy,
Charlotte
(head mistress and lead instructor of the Cozy Home Academy: Est. Aug. 2006)