One pride I take is always living my life in a way that tells people how I feel about them - by how I treat them, take interest and help them feel important. No greater hope is within me than for this to be true to each one of you students. This video was difficult to make - each minute spent putting it together was an unwanted reminder our end was approaching.
And here we are - the evening after the last day. Bitter-sweet doesn't do justice how I feel at this moment in time. I am so grateful for our year together and excited to send you into new chapters; a special place has been etched into my heart for this year's team 6.3.
One more time. . . #63Forever.
Yeah. I won't say that I will miss all of the schoolwork, but I definitely miss all of my friends. :-(
ReplyDeletep5- Daniela
ReplyDeleteWhen I started sixth grade, I didn't know that I would become so close to a teacher. When I walked into your room that first day, I thought you were just another teacher. Day by day, I started noticing that you were different. You taught actively, made us get up and do things instead of sitting down and reading out of a textbook all day. The year went by so fast. It felt like I just blinked and it was over. On the last day I didn't cry at school, but when I got home, I broke down. I thought about all of the things that I would miss. But I know that you wouldn't want me to spend my day crying. You would want me to cherish my memories, but think of what lies ahead. It has been an amazing journey, and I am grateful that you were there beside me. You have been an amazing teacher and person. You have challenged us all to think of others before ourselves. I can not explain all of my feelings, but I want to say thank you for everything you have done.
p.s. It's not too late to switch to seventh grade social studies.
p5- Daniela
ReplyDeleteI still feel like on Monday, I'm going to go back to school and see all of my classmates and teachers.
Daniela - that was the most genuine post I believe I've ever seen. Currently at school in our classroom, it's hard thinking about all the fun things that happened in here and the fact that it's over. It's a special place, but the desks, chairs, books and posters don't define a place - memories are made because of people you're surrounded by. That's why this empty room is exaclty that. . . empy. What made this a special place is not here.
ReplyDeleteSummer will pass quickly, however; it usually does. Enjoy!
~Elise
ReplyDeletei woke up really early this morning and started getting ready for school when i realized schools over, never thought id miss everyone so much...
Ahahaha the same thing happened to me! Im like "Kay ima leave for school now dad." and hes like "Gracee, school got over remember?" and then I started crying
Delete-Deep breaths Gracee
(Part one, it wouldn't all fit in just one) So far I've had 6x6 random crying breakouts, 5 of them in puclic, 4 sleepless nights, 3 laptops with the end of year video and knowstrength as a short cut, plus my iPod and my dads phone, 2 days of just eating and sleeping all day and 1 horrible Gracee who is so homesick she hasn't talked much, and you know how hard that is for me to do. Because 6.3 was my home. Every single day, I hated walking home from school, not because it was a long day, but because I knew I would have to wait a whole day to go back. Weekends were torture for me. I hated breaks,I hated them because...it was just agony. Once my dad and I were pretending we had to go to jail. We were thinking about what it would be like.I had a chorus concert on Monday that I was looking forward to. I thought about what would happen if I missed that, the last concert of the year. Then I thought about what would happen if I had to leave 6.3 forever. And of course I randomly broke out in tears again. I will never ever go over to that part of town again. Every night I go to sleep listening to the end of year video and whenever I hear the word forever I think about 6.3 and almost faint. My new favorite song is forever young by one direction but when I hear it, I just cry some more. My dad always tried to get over my home sickness on the weekends by taking me and some friends out to movies or something but it didn't help much. He always said "Goodness Gracee if you cant even stay away from school on the weekends how on earth are you gonna get thru the summer?" I thought I would some how do it by some how doing it but now I know its gonna be a lot harder than I expected. I'm so miserable I spent all of today watching all the videos on your vimeo account in front of the sixth grade doors at Patrick henry, having at least two breakouts every ten minutes as I remembered all the fun times I had waiting to go inside there. I printed the picture of you and Mrs. Rentschler at the Wax Museum and its hanging in a frame on my wall along with the one of me Alaina and Elise eating popsicles and a pic of me Gage Lilly and Zach doing the Harry Potter appleade thing one last time. It keeps coming back to me that even though I will be going back to school next year, it wont be the same. I wont be on 6.3, and I wont have you as a teacher anymore. That's why I love and hate those pictures. They remind me of all the good memories I had at Patrick but that's good and bad. Its only the first day that I feel like I should be at school and im not and im already spilling my guts out into this comment which is probably more like a paragraph now. I've even been feeling sick lately. I have this urge to jump out my window and run to Patrick and break in and just see your room one last time before you take down all the wonderful memories. Or maybe you already have? Poop that just made me break down again. You should see my room, its covered in #63forever and a bunch of inside jokes from my friends and I. But I cant even call them friends anymore. They are family now and always will be. And you brought us all together!!
ReplyDelete(Part two) That's one of the reasons I nominated you for Teacher of the Year. Btw I had to use up three pages front and back just to get in half the awesome things you did for me and 6.3 and that was closer to the beginning of the year. K just had another break down cuz I saw the Harry's Allegiance thingy on the side which made me think about one direction which made me think about Forever Young which made me think about the video which made me think about all the memories that are sadly over. Im trying to convince my dad to let me rename my cat Fuzz to Otzi. Pd 2 will always be my favorite period but I think I might get in trouble next year for crying to much in the middle of class. My dad is telling me to move on but he really just doesn't know how much this year meant to me. Ive always had trouble with the summer but it usually just came at the end when I was longing for school to start again. But this is gonna be a LOOONNNNNGGGGG summer for me. I cant even describe my thankfulness that you gave me this opportunity and my favorite number will always be 63. And next year when you change the lives of a bunch of other lucky people I'm assuming you will use another hash tag, but could you not use #63forever? Idk I just feel like that's 2013 6.3s special hash tag nobody else can steal it. Could it be like #63always or something like that? Thanks that would be great!! Ugh cant stop crying now. Deep breaths gracee, breathe. I like lions. Okay again I honestly would love to keep ranting on and on and on about how sad I am and how I really need to become famous so I can have enough money to build a time traveler so I can restart this year but im probably boring you to death. Actually I know im not cuz you just understand like that and stuff but im about to ruin my laptop with all this water. Even though I'll definitely be empty inside for the next two years, I'll make an attempt to calm down. Thank you so much, Mr. K.
ReplyDelete-Gracee really needs to stop crying
last time(probably not ive been tracing it on my hand every two hours),
#63forever