The school year is officially over (well the part of the school year that makes me love being a teacher). It's summer vacation for the students and in a few days it will be summer vacation for me as well. I'm terribly sad about the end of the year. I guess when you really put 100% of yourself into an endeavor it really makes a difference for how you feel about it. I absolutely adore the young men and women who just finished 8th grade and it would not be possible for me to be any prouder of them as people or happier that I had an opportunity to be part of their lives.
I offered them a list of writing prompts that are similar to the ones that I would normally be having them do at the beginning of class and told them if they wanted to be in touch that I would love to read them. I gave them a prompt a day for the seventy four days they have summer vacation - today was the first day. I already received four prompts from students and I'm not going to share theirs, I'm going to write mine here. Yup, I'm going to do all of their prompts on here. If you like any of them I encourage you to send me yours and if your alright with having it posted just let me know.
Thank you to all my students who made this year the greatest year of my life.