Umm, not sure how to respond to this...

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I'm in an online school, and everthing I do for my eduacation is through a computer. My teachers communicate with me through a form of email we call k-mail. I have exams next week.
My grade in my english class is at least 110%. Because of this, my teacher sent me this message:

Dear Ariel,

I wanted to take a moment and thank you for your hard work and dedication to English class this semester. As a result of your efforts, you currently have an A in English.

As a symbol of my gratitude, I will be excusing you from both parts of the semester exam! If you look in your grade book, you will notice an 'EX' marking next to the semester test. This is just my way of saying thank you.

It has been a pleasure working with you this semester! Good luck on the rest of your exams and I'll 'see' you next semester!

-Ms. A

How exactly do I respond to this? I think "thank you" should be somewhere in there, but I don't want to sound like a jerk or anything.

PS I hope it doesn't sound like bragging, because I really didn't mean for this to come off that way.

Congratulations!! !

I've faced that situation for something else and ignored it. I regret ignoring it because I'm pretty sure it was rude. Now if I say anything, it would just be weird. It was years ago.

I'd recommend starting with Thank You and then share the credit. Tell your teacher that you could not have achieved this success without her and your other teachers, that their professionalism, care and knowledge has really motivated you to push forward and have been a tremendous benefit to you.

Her letter commends you on an outstanding job. So, thank her for the acknowledgment and then commend her on an outstanding job.

And, by the way, I've done this with a teacher who helped my son back when an awful principal wanted to hold him back a grade. Reaching out to credit her for my son's success really meant a lot to her.

PS. Your post didn't seem like bragging to me.

I would just send a quick thank you note. If you thought she was a good teacher, a compliment is also in order.

If you are interested in further English study or need some sort of academic advice she could give, now may be a good time to ask.

I agree with Densaugeo.

Just say "Thanks". Mention that you enjoyed her class, as is shown by your outstanding grade.

Congratulations

Yes, send a thank you.
I will be contacting you to write some english papers for me in the near future.

Wow. I've never heard of a teacher expressing gratitude to a student for their efforts in class. Most of the time they begrudgingly "allow" you to be exempt....

I agree with everyone else that a simple note to say, "Thank you," and that you enjoyed the class would be sufficient.

Thank you guys! Now if only my algebra teacher would exempt me too lol.