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This post combines three ideas/connections to three blog sites. The Thanku poem was started by the Teaching Authors who encouraged us to write thank you haiku about teachers who have influenced us. Chalk-a-bration is a monthly round up that Betsy Hubbard hosts at Teaching Young Writers. And the Celebration Saturday round up is hosted by Ruth Ayres at Discover. Play. Build.
Last Friday before we broke for a week off, my students wrote their Thanku poems in chalk. I wrote, too, and was pleased with the sticky thanku I wrote for my mom. I’m hoping she will read this and make me pancakes this morning.
I celebrate that Brooklyn’s flying and thanking me for her wings. How awesome!
Tyler celebrates the sunshine in his life, his mother. His grandma makes pancakes shaped like Mickey Mouse.
I love you, Mom, for more than just your pancakes, but your pancakes are the best!
Reflections on the Teche 
I love the thanku idea! Yours is beautiful – I love “sticking in my heart!” I hope you got your pancakes!
All so lovely, Margaret. I like the ‘sticking in my heart’ too, but also that first one to you! Beautiful ‘thanks’ to you!
That one came from a student who was beginning to bud when she came to me. I just gave her the space and acceptance she needed to spread her wings out. I was truly touched by her poem.
Stumbled across the thank-u poems yesterday during Poetry Friday. Love this idea and am contemplating trying it every day for a year! The thank-u’s you and your students wrote are so special- know that there were lots of teary moms this weekend!
What a great combo of a post! I am so glad you got your pancakes and that you are so loyal in the chalking world. đŸ™‚