Good Day, Not-so-Good Day, Good Day...

If yesterday was a bad day, then today was a good day to make up for it.  Beautiful weather, lots of learning, doing cool projects...

This morning, we hung our chain of the church year.  The 7th and 8th graders who visited our room kept asking what each of the colors meant.  I was very pleased to hear my 6th graders telling them the correct answers.  Now hopefully no one will pull it down.  We'll start tearing chain links off starting on Monday.

One of the boys was absent today, so the classroom was much quieter.  It was very strange how just one person being gone could make our classroom that much quieter.  When he's here, it doesn't seem like he's very loud.  But the boys probably feed off each other.  The boy who was left behind was extra quiet today.  That was also very strange.

At lunch, he decided to start a game of "Little Red Schoolhouse."  The result was a super quiet lunchtime.  Most of the girls didn't care, so they talked right away.  It was down to him and me.  The game was going to be a stalemate for a long time, so I gave in and said something so the game would be over.  And then he started another round!  This time, it was death by laughing.  And by death, I mean most of the players were kicked out of the game for laughing.  Again, I was one of the last people left silent against the initial instigator.  He won a second time and decided to stop playing because "I was the champion twice, so I don't need to play anymore."

The 7th and 8th graders had a review game for their test on Friday.  It actually went really well.  They remembered more of the material than I thought they did!  There was very little screwing around except as they left the classroom.  One student was mad at his teammate because he wasn't listening to anyone else in the group.  The ignored boy decided to slam the door in the first guy's face and he walked right into it.  Of course he started bawling.  The other boy thought he was justified in his actions.  Everyone else wanted to know what happened.  Crazy, crazy, crazy.  But we got it straightened out.

After school, the new uniforms for basketball got passed out.  I didn't see much of it, but I could certainly hear it!  The boys were trying to remember which number they wanted and which shorts would fit them.  A few of them were trying on these basketball shorts right over their pants.  What a fashion statement!