Readers Comments
Carlos vasquez wrote: This touched my like i touch johnson
kevin vega wrote: This touched me just like my uncle
Kathleen wrote: My 5th grade teacher did this activity for our classroom, except that she turned each student's list into a magnet. I am now 30 and still have it hanging on my fridge. This is a really powerful exercise.
tom wrote: This was a very touching story!
samira zeghdar wrote: I'm samira from algeria our supervisor shared the story yesterday really we need to devote all our time in appreciating the best things of surrounded people, friends,collegues,family members. This story whether fictious or real it draws an inspiration to those teachers who want to create a wonderful relation between them and their students ,and we can say here that the teaching process is accomplished
J. Cunningham wrote: My son's fifth grade teacher, patsy simiril, had an interesting project in her classroom. Whenever a student had a birthday, she had all the other students write a letter to the birthday child, telling what they like about them. She then assembled the letters in a bound book, then presented it to the celebrant.
My son is fifteen now, and i still catch sight of him reading it. As i read it now, it is amazing how perceptive these young children were, and how true their assumations are of the person my son truly is today.
I'm so grateful to mrs. Simiril for this book. It's a real heirloom we will have forever.
J . Cunningham
My son is fifteen now, and i still catch sight of him reading it. As i read it now, it is amazing how perceptive these young children were, and how true their assumations are of the person my son truly is today.
I'm so grateful to mrs. Simiril for this book. It's a real heirloom we will have forever.
J . Cunningham
Joyce wrote: It's no longer a fairytale when others have made it real. We did this as adults when our company "merged" and many loved co-workers were displaced. I still carry my list and it reminds me about the others who i was humbled and nonored to work with.
Marcia wrote: I've done this with special needs kiddos. Each got a full sheet of approximately 24 blank name stickers. Positive remarks were written about each student, and then stuck onto the individuals back. When the exercise was completed, each child had the positive comments of his entire grade on his back. The child then selected someone to read them, as each statement was read, the sticker was removed and re-secured onto a poster for that child to take home.
Hannah wrote: I've done this a few times with year 4 children (8/0 yr olds) and laminated it at the end of a year as a moving up pressie. They love it. Don't know if they keep it or not, but i'd like to think they did.
SEL wrote: I am an english teacher (and i also teach leadership and art) and over the years i have used this exercise with 7th and 9th grade english classes. I do hear back often that my students still have their lists and they are important to them. This makes my heart glad.