{"id":10057,"date":"2025-07-21T21:43:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=10057"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:44:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:44:39","slug":"students-say-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/students-say-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Students say thank you"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"963\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cards-1024x963.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cards-1024x963.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cards-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cards-150x141.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cards-1536x1444.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cards-1200x1128.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cards.jpg 1706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was such a pleasure to speak with 7th grade students at JL Simpson Middle School this May. This is the second year in a row that I&#8217;ve virtually visited with all 11 classes. Students are well-prepared and avid readers and I really admire their teachers because they know how to combo a whole lot of learning for maximum effect. I got this package in the mail &#8212; thank you notes from the kids, and also from Jennifer, media specialist extraordinaire. But these aren&#8217;t just any thank-you notes. Students created thank you notes <em>for me to use<\/em> as thank you notes! The outside of each note card has student-created art based on a scene from one of my books. On the back of the cards is the student&#8217;s name and the name of the book that inspired their art. So a learning opportunity that combines art, literature, history, communications and courtesy! Wow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was such a pleasure to speak with 7th grade students at JL Simpson Middle School this May. This is the second year in a row that I&#8217;ve virtually visited with all 11 classes. Students are well-prepared and avid readers and I really admire their teachers because they know how to combo a whole lot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/students-say-thank-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Students say thank you&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[233,353,969,385,475,609,51],"class_list":["post-10057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-ukrainian-famine-genocide","tag-scholastic","tag-student-art-work","tag-ukraine","tag-virtual-visits","tag-winterkill","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10060,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10057\/revisions\/10060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}