Friendship was my biggest success story this year! I have been a bilingual teacher for ten years and this year was the best as far as crossing bridges. I teamed with the monolingual second grade teacher and together we created meaningful, fun, and real opportunities to get my native Spanish speaking students working, learning, and playing with her mostly English speaking students. Our culminating experience was our community trip! We had breakfast at a Mexican restaurant, delivered donated items to a shelter, toured the public library, and visited the humane society. We worked together to not only enjoy our community but to give back to it as well.