Dear Teacher,
As our youngest leaves elementary school it is hard to put into words how much we have appreciated you and your teaching over the years. You have taught but you have also challenged, enriched, laughed with and listened to our kids. And you stretched the boundaries of the classroom with a school garden and various field trips. Whether they were learning to plant, weed and harvest vegetables at God's Little Acre, seeing our garbage languish at the landfill, being taught to slack-line on a rope, knowing where every country in the world was by being given map colouring as homework, or having their good old-fashioned punctuation corrected, they took it all in.
And so both of our daughters have had the good fortune to have you as a teacher. It was probably one of the few years that our older daughter could remember liking elementary school. Our younger daughter has grow into a curious, independent and knowledgeable person in part because of her time in your classroom. Every day they could count on being heard and being treated with respect by a man who never yelled and often played his guitar. Our girls are better people for having known you and so are we. You have our thanks....
As our youngest leaves elementary school it is hard to put into words how much we have appreciated you and your teaching over the years. You have taught but you have also challenged, enriched, laughed with and listened to our kids. And you stretched the boundaries of the classroom with a school garden and various field trips. Whether they were learning to plant, weed and harvest vegetables at God's Little Acre, seeing our garbage languish at the landfill, being taught to slack-line on a rope, knowing where every country in the world was by being given map colouring as homework, or having their good old-fashioned punctuation corrected, they took it all in.
And so both of our daughters have had the good fortune to have you as a teacher. It was probably one of the few years that our older daughter could remember liking elementary school. Our younger daughter has grow into a curious, independent and knowledgeable person in part because of her time in your classroom. Every day they could count on being heard and being treated with respect by a man who never yelled and often played his guitar. Our girls are better people for having known you and so are we. You have our thanks....
