To: Future Me

Yesterday, I had all of my students write letters to themselves that I'll return to them on their first day of 8th grade. Every day my students amaze me with their self-awareness. Here's one of the letters:

My Goals, My Life

I am not doing so well in math and I know I can do way better than what I'm doing now. It is a new year and a new DECADE! I am going to try harder and do my best! Learning math is a very great, important and fun thing to do and achieve! To me, math is...... Everything!!!! People needed to know about math and measurement to build homes and even our schools!!

My first goal for this year is to get at least three or four hundreds on my quizzes or tests. My second goal is to STAY FOCUSED!!! I sometimes tend to doze off or daydream a lot and sometimes I don't even know what we're talking about! I feel bad that I do that. I just can't help it! I will try not to do it anymore. I promise! :) My third goal is to do all of my Do Nows and homework neatly and show ALL of my work and also try to do it as correctly as possible.

I love art!!!! It takes me to somewhere else. It takes me to this beautiful place in my imagination. I can explain and express my thoughts and feelings. I also like to TALK about religion and the government. It lets me state my opinions in the world. I can't wait to get to high school so we can have debates in class! I know exactly what I have to say! Good bye and good day!