8th Grade Sisters Embrace Puns for a Self-Initiated Celebration of National Teachers Day
May5,2020
Not only did two 8th grade students appeal to their English teacher through octopuses (her favorite animal) and puns, they made Ms. Brown tremendously proud as their self-initiated National Teachers Day emails and art showed that they applied the life lessons at work in her classroom, as well. The 8th grade sisters sent Ms. Brown - their English and homeroom teacher - unexpected emails on National Teachers Day. Their notes of gratitude recognized class events and assignments they found special and included photographs of their original artwork that wished their teacher a "Happy National Teachers Day."
Throughout the last three years, Ms. Brown made it a priority to have her homeroom students celebrate the National Appreciation Days that apply to schools through various - often pun-filled - projects. She hoped it would encourage kids to see the importance and meaningfulness of acknowledging and recognizing the people in our lives who do right by us and help us - enough so that they would carry that value with them upon leaving her classroom. That hope reveals why this self-initiated gesture by the 8th graders meant so much and instilled so much pride. Thank you, Sophia and Soraya, or applying - on your own - the life lessons our English curriculum has strived to encourage!