By Michele Miller, Times Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Shelby Thompson, 16, left, helps second-graders Devoni Rodriguez, right, Aniya Timmons, center, and Blake Devisfruto, all 7, create holiday wreaths during an arts and crafts activity at Watergrass Elementary School.
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It was just a couple of days before the winter break and 7-year-old Blake Devisfruto was fretting about the holiday wreath he was making out of green jigsaw puzzle pieces in his second-grade classroom at Watergrass Elementary.
"It's not perfect," he told Shelby Thompson as she paused from her task of dotting glitter berries and bows on the wreath of another.
"Don't worry about that," Shelby offered with a cheery voice and a smile that seemed to lighten Blake's mood. "Life isn't perfect. So why should wreaths be?"
At 16, Shelby seems to have the teacher gig down. Sure, there's another year of ...