3rd grade letters to next year's class

I'M SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS POST I CANNOT CONTAIN MYSELF AND HAVE TO USE ALL CAPS!

Okay, so I really don't know where to start. It's the end of the school year. Happy. Sad. All sorts of feelings mixed into one. Let me just start by saying if I could build perfect little human beings to put in my class, they STILL wouldn't be as great as my class this year. It's been such an amazing year, which was exactly what I needed to keep me goin'. With the end of the year dwindling down, I found a cute "balloon pop" idea on teacherspayteachers.com (my classic go-to website). You count down the last however many days of school you want (I did 9) by putting little notes w/ activities inside a balloon and blowing it up. Each day someone gets to pop a balloon and the class gets to do the fun activity in the balloon. It's been so much fun! Here's a rundown of what we have done so far:
Day 9- Move your desk anywhere in the room you'd like!
Day 8- Come eat lunch with the teacher.
Day 7- Let's have a paper airplane contest.
Day 6- Bubble gum blowing competition!
Day 5- Since the weather is so nice, let's have a lesson outside.
Day 4- Write a letter of advice to next year's class.

So that's where we are at today. I was literally laughing so hard at their letters I was crying. I encouraged them to give them advice of "do's and don'ts" in Ms. Shipman's class. I cannot believe how well these kids know me. First off, they made me sound like a Nazi  but it was so great I have to share some of these things:

• One kid started theirs off by saying: " Ms. Shipman is a really awesome, kind teacher but she can be very stern so DON'T get on her bad side." -- Luckily, no one this year got on my "bad side."
• Another student said: "You might have to help her remember things. She's forgetful." Hahahaha.  
• Here are some of their "do's":
• Have fun
• Listen and be respectful.
• Do your best.
• Study for spelling tests.
• Wait until Ms. Shipman is done talking before raising her hand.
• Make sure your pencil is really broken before getting a new one.
• Always put her workshop games away nicely.
• Keep your desk area organized.
• And here are some of their "don'ts" :
• Do NOT pick your nose or else she will make you sanitize your hands.
• Use too many tissues. (you should be safe with 1 at a time)
• Put sharp pencils facing up in the pencil cup.
• Lose her math workshop game cards.
• Interrupt her.
• Get a drink while she is teaching. 
• Try to use your bathroom pass right after recess or lunch.
• Be lazy when working in a group.

 I will end this letter by saying I am not a crazy lunatic (mostly). I just like things to be organized and I have a routine for every thing. Every. single. thing. But, it makes things run fairly smoothly most of the time and I still like to think of myself as a "nice" teacher. Haha. :)