Food Fear Factor

We went outside for recess today!!! And can you believe it, the 8th graders complained about HAVING to go outside.  Granted, it was a little muddy, but still.  The weather was gorgeous!  I sat there and let the sun sink into my bones... I didn't want to go back inside.  We actually opened the windows in the classroom because it was getting too warm!


Chapel was at church this morning for the first time since before winter.  We didn't freeze walking over!


The school nurse did a Food Fear Factor nutrition lesson today.  She talked about calories and the food pyramid and what different fruits and vegetables do for your body.  Then came the challenge.  She brought 18 fruits and vegetables of different colors for the students (and me!) to try.  Some were cooked (parsnips, beets, eggplant with spaghetti sauce, turnips, squash, and rutabaga), most were uncooked (figs and Fig Newtons, prunes, okra pickles, pea pods, avocado, tomatillo salsa with chips, mango, cauliflower, jicama, red peppers, and blood oranges).  Most of my kids tried everything!  I added a little incentive to the mix.  For every three kids that try one of the food items, we can put a marble in the class prize jar.  So if there are 18 foods, and thirteen kids, that makes a potential for 78 marbles.  One prize= 65 marbles.  We ended up with 64 and 2/3rds of a marble.  So I rounded it up and the class gets to pick a reward... extra recess, a movie morning, something like that.  They were really excited.


After school was chaotic.  We went over to church to pack up the books from the book fair, but Pastor wasn't over there and the door to the room was locked.  Rachel and I had left our phones at school, and Mr. D only had their home phone number in his phone... we called and got the answering machine.  So we walked over and rang their doorbell, but they weren't home.  After a while they called school and told us they'd unlocked the room.  So we went back over to church and loaded up all the stuff, brought it back to school, packed it in the boxes, and finished just in time for the PTL meeting. 


In between there, I got a call from one of the chaperones for tomorrow's field trip... the lady she got to cover her shift at work ended up not being able to work for her.  So we're short one chaperone and a few seats.  Mr. D didn't want to drive and we had planned for him to ride with another driver, but now it looks like he'll have to drive.  He's trying to figure out a way he doesn't have to drive... we'll see if anyone is sick tomorrow...


Now the PTL meeting is over, I think I'm set for tomorrow, and it's about time to go home!