“I have recently stumbled upon an article online on ABC
News about a little girl who lost her family in a fire and severely burned 75%
of her body. (2 years ago) All she wants for Christmas this year is Christmas
cards for her tree. Since we have been making notecards throughout the
year, I was wondering if the class could make a Christmas Card/cards and send
to her. I can get more details but just wanted to pass the idea by you
first.”
Here is a link to this little girl he is referring to:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/girl-lost-family-fire-receives-195000-christmas-cards/story?id=35762934
And so we took 5-10 minutes in class (and a break from
Emerson and Thoreau) to write Christmas card to Sa’fyre and sent them to
her.
I was so proud of my student for “stumbling” upon this and
then taking them time to send me an email so that we could make this happen and
send about 50 more Christmas cards her way.
As teachers, we try to teach our subjects and model good
character and behavior daily. This email
comes from a student with a good heart, but also the motivation to try to do
whatever needed to be done to see a good deed come to fruition. Many of us probably saw this article in our
newsfeeds, but along with all the other things we had to do to get ready for
Christmas, we may have thought that it would be nice to send her a card, too,
but would not have gotten to it. This
student could have also just send Sa’fyre a card himself after seeing this
article. But, he put a thought into an
email that spurred the rest of us to take action. You can definitely add this to the list of
the reasons I love being a teacher.
This truly was an inspirational way to head into the
holidays.
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