This is Bird Note.

My name is Rashina Fountain.

I am a writer, write about the environment.

In kindergarten, I had a teacher named Miss Beek.

She was my favorite teacher. kindergarten I had a teacher named Miss Beek.

She was my favorite teacher.

And one of the things that she did to encourage

natural connections with the students in her class,

she had a contest to see who could see the first robin of the spring.

Whoever reported back seeing the first robin of the spring would get a prize. Looking back, I don't know if my

classmates were that excited, but I was super jazzed about it and I remember

walking home from school and seeing a Robin just like sitting on top of greengrass and being super excited.

The next day, Told her I saw it and I won the contest and the gift that Miss Beak gave me was a book, The

Belvatine Rabbit and she wrote a little note in front of it and it became one of my favorite stories.

When Rachina grew up she studied environmental science and worked at her local Audubon society.

Now she writes about nature and diversity in the outdoors.

And even all these years later,

whenever Rishina sees a robin, she thinks back to Miss Beak.

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