Kylie C. 4M

!Ms.Malbin!

I feel like I have been taken away to a world, far away in Ms.Malbin’s class. This is a world where I feel safe, peaceful, happy and always by her side. I feel as if I’m a free bird just flying around, always finding new discoveries and learning about that discovery, cherishing it and trying not to forget it.

Ms. Malbin was born on October 12 and she spent her childhood in Cape Town, South Africa and came to Westport when she was a grown up! I love listening to stories about a different country and learning about the oceans and the weather. When she was a child, she used to love sipping honey from the honeysuckles which grew in her garden in South Africa, and she would shake the pine nuts from the trees, too.

Every morning Ms. Malbin starts her day with a Starbucks latte! Ms. Malbin wears the prettiest clothes every day from head to toe! She is very beautiful, as beautiful as a princess or even a queen! She wears something that makes her stand out every single day, as if she has a whole closet full of spectacular things. She wears the prettiest accessories. My favorite ones are the necklaces from South Africa because they are all different colors like red, blue, pink, purple and yellow which make her look like the rainbow! They were made by a special tribe called the Ndebeles. She also has an elephant belt and that is her favorite animal.

Ms.Malbin is unique because she is the only teacher in the school with a cool accent like her! Ms.Malbin’s catch phrase is “Oh crumbs” when she is frustrated! When we misbehave she tells us that we are “naughty, boisterous and bouncy”. But mostly Ms. Malbin calls us ‘darling, sweetheart and baby cakes!

My favorite thing Ms. Malbin does is read alouds. My favorite book she read this year is Time for Andrew because I got to learn about how people lived in 1910 especially how girls could not wear trousers or drive cars. Another book Ms. Malbin read to us was Tiger Rising and Fig Pudding. I love Ms.Malbin’s read alouds because of her expression and one day I hope I can become a teacher like her!

I will cherish her enthusiastic voice and how I feel like her own daughter with a mother comforting me, encouraging me and always there for me. I will never forget Ms.Malbin.