This paper my nine-year-old brought home made me smile:
“Where did you get your ideas for these?” I asked.
The first was a fortune he had read in a Big Nate book, I learned. The others he came up with on his own, more or less.
Way to go, Caleb.
Isn’t this an exercise we could all use once in a while, to rehearse positive self talk?
Way to go, Mrs. Otto.
first teacher 
Yes, way to go Caleb! Super!
People in Washington DC need a lesson about positive self talk. I elect Caleb to be the teacher to teach the adults there.
Yes, there are many who could use a lesson on finding the good in others…
I’m biased, but let me say he’d make an excellent teacher.