It's so worth it...

So I'm still sick... I thought I was getting better Monday and Tuesday, but then I felt worse. I made it through the week but am now spending the day drugged up, sleeping, and cuddling with my humidifier. Blah.

However, I will proceed to type the letter (verbatim) that made my week so worth it:

To: Ms. Frostman
From: Nadine
Hello Ms. Frostman did you know your the best most best teacher in the whole intired world! First, because you always be a lovable teacher! Next, you always try to make math practice or reading things F.U.N. :) Last, when your sick or got a headach you try your best to still make things F.U.N. thats one or two or three things I LOVE about you! you also have the best candy in the hole world. So Never Never quit who you are. Remember your cool

The other best part of my week came during my math class on Friday. I gave the kids a timed multiplication quiz, and the kids who didn't pass had to have multiplication practice over the weekend. As I went around the room getting scores, one girl said "I think I passed?" and I said "You think?" and her friend said, "Oh, she passed!" (they had graded each other's papers). About five minutes later the same girl came over to my desk and said, "Ms. Frostman, I really didn't pass. My friend wrote down the answers for me." I gave her a copy of the homework, hugged her, and told her I was very proud of her... and later in the class, when her team was down one point at the end of the game we were playing, I called an official tie because of the courage and honesty of a member of the losing team. Many of the kids didn't really know what I was talking about, but they were all good sports and accepted it... but the best part was the huge smile on her face. Now there is a kid who has learned something.