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  We want to be in a learning community where… The classroom environment is quiet, calm, clean, fun, safe, peaceful, comfortable, organized, and playful.  I am happy, nice, safe, having fun, calm, sitting, focused on work, solving problems, helpful, kind, listening, playing, and making friends. Our classmates are nice, kind, quiet, fun, helpful, focused on their work, flexible, safe, calm, playing, and using their manners. Our teachers are helpful, kind, nice, fun, calm, polite, trustworthy, joining the fun, engaging, patient, and funny.

  Good afternoon almost 5th graders!  Good afternoon family, friends, teachers, and well wishers.   We are here today to celebrate the growth and accomplishments of these fine students.  And it has been an honor to teach them for the past couple of years.  This group of kids will always be near and dear to my heart because we went through two and half years of covid together.  And they have shown such resilience, empathy, and grace, far more than most adults that I know. I appreciate my time with them and look forward to what they will do in the future.   Well, my darlings, you are about to head into middle school.  And with any change, it comes with excitement and anxiety.  This change might be wonderful or it might be a challenge, or most likely a little bit of both.  But I assure you that you have the tools to navigate this change with the same resilience, empathy, and grace you have shown during our covid years.   The proof is right here.  This is our speaking stone.  It was first