A teacher from the South Side of Chicago is bringing Christmas cheer to her students with the help of her community! Laura Quering is a third-grade teacher at Carter G. Woodson North in the Bronzeville community in Chicago’s South Side. For seven years, Quering has been collecting donated gifts to give to her students a week before Christmas. Quering asked her community to help bring cheer to her students this year. They collected gifts for over 300 students this year. The third-grade teacher asked her students to write down a Christmas list and were partnered up with a gift donor. Many donors making the students’ lists come true. “The magic is in hearing them say, ‘that’s what I wanted!’,” said Quering.