Dear Sugar Lips, love is in the air

Who needs cheesy cliche phrases written to a significant other, when you could spend your days writing love notes to fish and finding new terms of endearment for parents? Well, that's our motto, at least. They other day, I told the kids that Herbie the blue beta would now have a mailbox, and in the occurrence you were to finish all your work, you could write him a little note. That same day, after I bid the dragons farewell, I decided to open the mailbox I had given to our gilled pet. The top popped off and the folded papers it was suppressing came flowing out. I suppose most of my kids were able to find the time to write Herbie a little note, and fold it lovingly into the box. I learned many things from these notes: 1. Herbie is apparently the "best friend" to many in my class.("Herbie, you are my best friend, and you are the best fish in the world) 2. Herbie is "da bomb" 3. Many inquired how it is that he reads while in his fish bowl. (I told them that he does).



He even got a couple valentines and candy:


Like I said, who needs a significant other when a fish is just a able to receive letters and candy. Now, like I mentioned before, those of us in room 19 don't need to rely on cheesy cliches of endearment to get our point across, especially some of my English language learners. While we lovingly created letters to parents using little candy hearts to add phrases, many of the children decided to throw out some of the more "off" hearts. Phrases like, "you flirt," or "email me" weren't popular in the letters to parents. But when Eduardo read me his letter to his mom, I knew he had definitely chosen some winners. He didn't chose the common, "I love you" heart, or, "you rock." No way, we are not hindered by mediocrity here!

Please enjoy the letter to him mom, and his choice of hearts just as I did:


It reads:

Dear Mommy,
Sugar lips, you are just a sugar lips. There is no no way way that I am going to stop loving you. No doubt you are the best mom ever no doubt. Sincerely, Eduardo

His mom, aka sugar lips, will be so blessed, she won't know what hit her!