Yippee!
So many first days,
Online, hybrid, in person
Finally all here!
Community
All are welcome here,
Greeting newcomers gladly,
You are one of us.
#Gratiku
Challenges are shared,
Will you write gratiku too?
Remember to pause.
Today at school we welcomed our “last” classmate. We all started the year online, then moved to hybrid, then fully online, but some students remained in online school. Today the final 3EV student came back to campus. It was lovely to see how excited the other students were to see him in person and help him begin the process of settling back in to campus life. I was ecstatic too.
The Teach Write community introduced a challenge for November- to write a #gratiku each day this month. Gratiku is a mash-up of gratitude and haiku. I introduced the challenge to my third graders today and we composed one together. I wonder if any will join me in trying this out all month. I do love a challenge!
Ms. Victor Reads 
I love the style and how you wrote it! I am glad your students are all together now. Such a strange and different year but definitely beauty and gratitude in being able to learn together in the same physical space.
I love these little gratitudes. I’m going to try and jump in. Thanks for inspiring.
Oh, what a great idea! That’s what I need. I will join in, Erika!
Pausing and thanking
When I forget all the good
Help me refocus
Gratiku! I’ll try it! I can’t wait to see what your kids wrote. I’m so happy you are all back together. Enjoy!
Erika, thanks for the good news in the form of a #gratiku series. My Spiritual Journey Thursday writing community’s topic for November is gratitude. I might add a gratiku for the post.
Lovely gratikus. This is a lovely community. I missed Nov 1 but started writing gratikus Nov 2 and sharing on Instagram.