HOUSTON COUNTY, Ga. — In March, students and teachers in Houston County left school for the weekend not knowing it would be their last time in the classroom together for the rest of the school year.
Lacey Middlebrooks teaches pre-k at David A. Perdue Primary and says it's been difficult not getting to see her students.
"I just feel like I didn't get to finish the year with them like we needed to," Middlebrooks said.
Middlebrooks says she has been grateful to be able to still interact with her students through video calls, but she wanted to find a way to show them how much she misses them.
"We're a family," she said. "We talk from day one about how we are a classroom. When I wake up, I think about my child and then I think about them next. They just mean so much to me."
Middlebrooks created yard signs and placed them in front of her students' homes along with a note with words of encouragement and a few of the things she misses most about them.
She says it's been rewarding to see pictures from her students as they pose with their signs wearing a big smile.
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