A Gift To Me From My “Family”

Jennie Fitzkee receives a beautiful end of term and Christmas gift from her class and their parents.. and how special it is too..#recommended

A Teacher's Reflections

Today our Room Parents arrived with gifts for the teachers, from all the families in our class.  Children were excited to watch their teachers tear open paper and uncover a gift.  Rarely am I at a loss for words.  I was when I opened the gift.

It was a book, Our Aqua Room Family.  Family.  That word somehow becomes cemented in September.  It is much like a badge, something everyone wears, feels and just knows.  We’re a family.

This was the first page:
Our family comes from many towns:
Our hair is straight, our hair is brown,
Our hair is curled, our eyes are blue, Our skins are different colors, too.

We’re girls and boys, we’re big and small,
We’re young and old, we’re short and tall.
We’re everything that we can be
And still we are a family.

We laugh and cry, we work and play,
We…

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