Every day at school, I try to help my students feel welcomed and wanted in my classroom and in my heart.
I especially try to do this for my immigrant students, for I know they often feel unwelcome and unwanted in the wider world around them.
I hope the last thing they remember as they drift off to sleep at night and the first thing they remember as they open their eyes to the new day is, “Mr. Barton is glad I’m here.”
I really, truly am.
Today, in writing workshop, we wrote Diamanté Poems.
These kinds of poems make the shape of a diamond and compare and contrast two different subjects.
My example for my students was a Diamanté Poem comparing and contrasting immigrants and the Statue of Liberty.
As I wrote and shared my poem, I looked out into the earthy brown eyes of my kids from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia and Peru and saw - how else can I describe it - a sparkle as if I had uncovered a diamond in the deepest parts of their hearts.
Immigrant
Courageous, Hopeful
Migrating, Hardworking, Learning
Working for a better life,
“Send these, the homeless,
tempest-tost to me”
Welcoming, Crying out, Uplifting
Mother of Exiles, Humble
Statue of Liberty
#storiesforimmigrants #iamamanger
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