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I'm Karen Purdy. I teach at Forest Trail 
Elementary and I teach Kindergarten

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What makes Ms. Purdy such a great teacher is she's always so kind to others

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She's just the nicest teacher that you can have in Kindergarten

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It feels like a community because she includes everyone

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Something I try to embody in my students all year long is that the word kindergarten has the word kind in it

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and that's what we're here mostly to do is to 
learn how to be kind

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Ms. Purdy is a good teacher because she's really kind and also very happy all the time

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She's always having a smile on her face

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and sometimes it was contagious in her classroom 
and we all had smiles

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I would say it's also not uncommon to see Ms. Purdy surrounded 
by kids that she's taught in the past  

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in the morning coming back to say hello and 
that's because they know that she's always going  

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to be supporting them

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I think she just always comes from a place of love and understanding and I think that they all recognize that

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and that's kind of why they stop by and see her at the at the beginning of the day or end of every day

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she has so many kids that stop and want to just give her a big hug or bring gifts it's really wonderful to see

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When I see you're in second grade I usually want to do give her a hug because I'm a big hugger!

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So it's Ms. Purdy too right?

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Yeah!

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She has a heart of gold she wakes up in 
the morning and she gives and gives and gives

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and is so generous and is so serving and is so loving 
and the impact that she's had on so many kids lives

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you can't count the lives that she's touched

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I love you Ms. Purdy. We love Ms. Purdy!

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