Monday, October 15, 2007
Mason's classmates share memories...
Today in class we read the story Gentle Willow by Joyce C. Mills. In the story Gentle Willow gets sick although all her friends want her to get better and in the end, she dies. Her friends are told that Gentle Willow had been giving them gifts all the time they knew her. The gifts were the memories that they still have of her after she is gone. I asked the children what memories they had of Mason. Joshua remembers going to the D.C. United game for Mason's birthday. "I was playing with him and eating all the candy with Mason!" Ashley remembers playing with Mason at the park and running with him. Sofia lived near Mason in Equador and knew him before he got sick. After he got cancer, Mason came to the United States to get new medicine. She remembers playing with Mason in Equador before he got sick. Hudson played soccer on Mason's soccer team and he went to play soccer at Mason's house too. Hudson remembers the soccer ball that Mason got with all the soccer rules written on it. Josh said he played by Mason on the soccer team.
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When Sophie came home from school that day she told me how Mason had given them pencils. I don't know if it was that day or another, but she continues to think of him as a current classmate. She did, though, when we went on a walk after she learned of Mason's death notice the birds and say that now Mason can fly, just like an angel.
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