Teacher’s Day

May 14 is Teacher’s Day in Korea. A day to celebrate and thank educators of all stripes for their dedication and hard work. For me, this meant a deluge of socks and after-shave.

In honour of this day, I asked my six- and seven-year-old kindergarten-graduate class, whom I’ve taught every day for the last eight months, to write a short essay about a teacher they know. To my delight, most wrote about me.

Here they are, unabridged and edited only for spelling. I think you’ll agree, they’re nothing if not honest:

Emily

Do you know Matt? Matt means short about Matthew. Matt loves Ellie teacher so marry! [It's not true! ] Matt lived in Toronto. Matt is in Korea and his family is in the Canada. UPenn students likes Matt. Matt is a good teacher. Calvin is a bad for Matt. But Matt loves everyone. Matt miss every one out of class.

Rebecca

Matt is a English Teacher. He is handsome and a good teacher and funny. He has big eyes. He has glasses. I think he love computers so sometimes his eyes are red. How long does he play on the computer? To Matt teacher, I want to play Monopoly today. from Rebecca.

Julia

My teacher’s name is Matthew.

Matthew is in my classroom.
Matthew is a man.
He always says “oush, oush!”
I study Amazing English [text book] with Matthew.
I play games with Matthew’s uno cards.
I play game Scrabble with him too.
I like Matthew. Because he’s funny.
He lived in America. [sic]

Laura

I like my teacher. My teacher’s name is Matthew teacher.
I learn English for my teacher.I play games with Matthew teacher.
Matthew teacher is the best teacher.

Basil

Matthew always said “oush!”
Matthew has many students so he has to work hard.
Matt and Calvin are unfriendly each other.
I like to play monopoly with Matt.
Matt is late all the time.

Angela

Matthew is my teacher. I like Matt little but is not good but now is very good.
I want to be a teacher. and first time I didn’t like Matt but now I like Matt.
and Julie teacher is good for me. I like Julie teacher.

Lynn

My teacher’s name is Matthew. Matthew is always late for school! And Matthew is very funny. I like my teacher. I like Matthew’s classes too. Matthew’s teaching is very good.

Calvin

I will be a good student.

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