Trimester Fair

Thursday was the Trimester Fair at school, which was a really awesome celebration of all the work that our students have been doing over the past few months. On this day, all of the teachers hang up or set out our students' final project, which range from posters to drawing to cartoon to photographs to essays to webpages to construction projects and furniture. It was a really beautiful display of diverse interests and learning, and I was so thankful to be able to see all of the student work. At the end of the day, our students' families and "teams" (people like social workers or guardians) came to see the work as well, and the students led a tour of the buildings, showing their team their projects. It was so awesome to see some of my very quiet students interacting with their families in an almost ranbunctious (and certainly very proud) manner as they showed off the work they did. I was so proud of them! I also got several compliments on one of the projects my student did especially, the one about Islam and Terrorism. It was really cool to see my students come to important concluions (i.e. Islam does not equal terrorism) on his own.

I'm thankful that the school takes the time to recognize these student achievements, as it would be very easy to just move through to the next trimester without taking the time to bask and celebrate. But that time was so important, and I'm very thankful to have been a part of it.