Thrilled To Be Teaching

Dear Students, Well, it's official.  We will not be going back to school this year.  We will finish out the year only seeing each other through a computer screen.  And with that announcement, my heart is shattered.  We should have another month together, the best month of the year.  Now, without warning or getting to say a real goodbye, we had to end our year together early.  Sure, we'll be "distance learning" during this time, but we all know that isn't the same as coming into school every day. I hope that when you look back on our year together, you don't dwell on how it ended.  I hope that, years from now, when you talk about school, you highlight all of the amazing things our year brought, instead of how a virus cheated us out of the final quarter of the year. I hope that you remember and talk about how our class became a family over the first three quarters of the year.  I hope you talk about feeling safe in our classroom.  I hope your heart feels h