It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Cold weather has settled here in Ohio, and the holidays are right around the corner. Like many other teachers, I set out special paper in our writing center for the students to write letters to the North Pole. I couldn’t help but notice that each of my students’ letters followed a very similar pattern: “Dear Santa, I want...I want...I want…” It seemed that my little firsties had a terrible case of the "gimmes," as my mom would say. More than that, I…