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Mrs. Mayfield brings her first graders for "Buddy Reading". At first we thought it was great to be able to take time away from studying in the afternoon so we could read to our first grade friends. But, by Christmas week we were especially excited because we had found small gifts to give our buddies. We quickly wrapped them and made tags so we would know whose gift belonged to who! We wanted to wait until the end of our time together to give out our presents, so we hid them and just started reading as usual. It turned out that the first graders surprised us! They had written us special letters telling us how happy they were to have made 4th grade friends and how they looked forward to these times when they walked all the way down to the 4th grade hall to read to us. They had written the notes in their best handwriting, each note a little different than the others. Giving and receiving gifts is what we all look forward to at Christmas, but it seems the true meaning is making friends and letting them know how special they are to us.
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