Encouragement Cards

Today I asked my middleschoolers to create encouragement cards today for their fellow classmates. After a few groans and sighs, they finally settled down to write, draw, fold, tape, and glue.

Student: Ms. S. How do you spell your name?
Me: M-I-S-S S-C-H-M-I-D-T
Student: That's weird.
Me: Yep. I am all about weird names. It's German.
Student: Ah ha.

A few moments later.
Student: Here you go, Ms. Schmidt.
Me: What?
Student: I wrote you a letter. But you can't read it until it's mail delivery time.
Me: Mail delivery time?
Student: Yeah.
Me: Ok. Let me know when, ok?

She forgot about it, but later when she wasn't looking I snuck over to grab the note from my mailbox and read the following:

Miss Schmidt,
hey gurl. whats up me here!
let me tell you...you mean so much to me I can tell you anything...thats awesome.
you make me happy.
i love to come to you class because you make me understand things better.
g2g ttul