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were. She was uplifted and smiled when she saw John walk in with the poinsetta plant.

8. Go to school activities, field trips, parties and offer to bring healthy snacks. One year our boys made a great big pinata shaped like a christmas ornament and filled it with candy. The teacher was proud and happy to have something different and exciting for the students.

9. Go to Open House for your child's classroom. Our boys had bought a cactus plant and was caring for it themselves. They brought it for a science display table during open house. John's cactus had grown so high. They had to walk almost a mile to school and they carried it without dropping it. Many parents commented on the cactus and it made John proud.

10. Let your teacher know you are checking homework and helping them learn their multiplication tables. John was in third grade and was having a hard time learning multiplication. So while he did the dishes I would quiz him. He was in tears at times. Then when I toldhim that after a certain number the numbers were reversed and had the same answer he excelled rapidly. They had a multiplication bee contest for his class, then all the third and fourth grade classes and John won them all.

11. It is important to say thank you by the parents and child to their teacher. Our boys when they were older went back to the elementary school to thank their teachers for giving them a great excitement about learning and how much they appreciated that great start later on in their years. You should have seen the beaming faces of the teacher. Probably made her day just to hear and to see that they came back in person to tell them.

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