Why I Do My Job, Part 6

Tina was also one of my third graders from the 2008-2009 school year.

Here’s the body:

Dear Ms. Scott,

Thank you for helping me to learn writing. You also taught me the story map. At first I thought that writing was lame so that’s why I was so bad at writing stories, but after a while of hard work with writing you inspired me to write stories in all my lifetime. I understand how important writing is now.

Next up is the read aloud. I know you try to pick the best books for us and I appreciate that. Also you have a great voice for that. When you read you say it so dramatically that I feel that I’m actually there and when you talk like Bradley Chalkers from There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom or Byron from The Watsons go to Birmingham I feel like I can actually hear them because when somebody exclaimed something I actually felt that somebody exclaiming that something.

Thank you for the cool Scott’s sixties mixes*. I listen to it almost every day. I loved when we went into poems. I loved poetry night. My favorite type of poem was the limericks and the haikus.

Once again thank you for this whole year of joy and fun.

Love,

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P.S. Mommy didn’t help me at all!

I love this. Especially the part about somebody and something.

*While I read aloud The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 (which everyone should read, by the way), I teach them the Motown songs that are mentioned in the story and others from the same period. After we’re done with the story, I give each kid a CD called “Ms. Scott’s Sixties Mix” with all the tunes on it.