My show and tell is...

A cool little guy made of teak wood that I found at the flea market a couple of years ago. My husband and I are always looking for interesting things that might have their own stories and we walked by a table one Sunday morning and saw him, standing there and looking at us, as if to say, "Please take me home with you!" We bought him for one dollar and let him sit on our mantle for the summer.

When school started back my husband reluctantly let me take him to my classroom. He still misses him looking down on us while we eat dinner, but now his new home is watching the entertaining 6th graders who spend their days with me.