Snow Wish

I exchanged letters with students today on this first day back from our five-day Thanksgiving weekend. I wrote a flowery note about break always going by so quickly and spending time with family and the fact that “being on break also gave me time to think about the time I get to spend with each of you: almost 90 minutes every day for an entire school year. That is a LOT of time! I want each of those days to be meaningful, for my sake and for your sakes. I hope that as we continue the school year we will be able to show appreciation and respect for each other so that we can end the year satisfied.”

Here is the response from one of my last-period students: “I went to my aunt and uncle’s church this weekend and during sunday school we had to fill out this paper that said on certain day we had to do something nice for someone and on thursday it said you had to be nice to the teacher you have last in a day of school. I hope it snows Wednesday and we get out of school because that will be very hard to do.”