Monday. I missed my morning writing and rolled into work a bit overwhelmed.
I spent before school and my first period cleaning up the classroom and finalizing plans with my co-teacher as I had a meeting during our first class, and she was flying solo.
As I was unplugging my computer to leave, a little hand crept in front of me and dropped three curled-up strips of paper onto my keyboard.
I opened up each strip to find three encouraging quotes that were important reminders as I began my day with students.
Catching their eye, I said, "How did you know that these were the words I needed to hear this morning?"
These words and their return smile touched my heart and reminded me that students care about us, too.
Those are keepers!!
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ReplyDeleteKids are the best. Sometiems they just know what needs to be said. Sweet little paper crafts are the best.
ReplyDeleteI love how the first paragraphs create a familiar chaos and with the gift of the three quotes I can feel the sense of calm that came with them. Maybe it's the way each sentence before that had so much in it, like a list of to-do's but the sentences about the papers, they are all in the moment!
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