End of the Year Reminiscing

I was recently cleaning out a box of old papers.  I found some of my old report cards from when I was school and laughed at the comments.  I also found some ‘thank you’ from some of the wonderful students that I taught over the years.  The following is a piece from a card made by a fourth grader whom I had during my student teaching.  By this time, it was already known that I would be leaving the area to take a position elsewhere:

I decided to include this as a reminder of how deeply we are impacting our students.  I remembered this student fondly, but I did not remember ever reading the letter when it was given to me—not until years later when I rediscovered it.