Sculpting Together

                                                   

I stumbled across this poem and wanted to share it with all of you, who are beginning your first day of kindergarten tomorrow (educators, students, and parents alike-we all share the experience)...

(Please consider when reading the following poem: the "she's" as "he's," and that there are two educators within FDK classrooms.)

Parents And Teachers 

-Author Unknown-

I dreamed I stood in a studio

And watched two sculptors there, 

The clay they used was a young child's mind

And they fashioned it with care.

One was a teacher; the tools she used

were books and music and art;

One was a parent with a guiding hand

and a gentle loving heart.

And when at last their work was done

They were proud of what they had wrought

For the things they had worked into the child

Could never be sold or bought.

And each agreed she would have failed

if she had worked alone

For behind the parent stood the school,

and behind the teacher stood the home.

What a powerful message!  

I look forward to another school year built on strong relationships between the home and school, where we can continue to sculpt together...