Dear Language Learners,

This may sound strange, but I loved grading your spelling tests over the weekend. English has borrowed words from so many other languages that’s it often weird and confusing. But it’s also really rich for communicating ideas. Ideas just seem to live and grow inside of these words and it’s so much fun to string these words together in new and interesting ways.

My hope for each of you is that you learn the powers of language so you can use it to make sense of the world and also to make change in the world. Language is the best tool we have for that.

Sincerely,

Mr. Heimbuck