Rip the Page

Last day of November... time to take off the desk calendar page!  I love having a fresh piece of paper.  No spills, no ink globs, no doodles or random scribbles in the margins.  Of course, it doesn't stay like that for long!


The morning was nice and clear, although a little dreary.  Just a little spitting precipitation, no snow yet.  The kids were all jumpy and hard to settle.  They were chatting up a storm and distracting themselves!  I actually put on classical music to get them to work quietly... it kind of worked. 


And then the computers wouldn't let them log on.  The IT guys actually answered, but they said to let it keep loading and see if it would let them on.  It didn't work.  Eventually we got it figured out and my kids could get on the computers, but it messed up our last day of NaNo time, so we'll fudge the date a bit and let them write for a morning in December. 


Since they couldn't work on the computers, they needed something to do that was writing related without technology.  Aha! Pen pal letters!  It's surprising how many of them don't remember the format for writing a letter.  Most got a pretty good start today introducing themselves and their favorite things.  Each is going to add his or her school picture to the bottom by the signature so the Romanian students can see what we look like.  I'm hoping to get those sent off by the end of the week.  Hopefully their English is good enough they can understand them! 


School got called off early today.  We found out after lunch that we'd go home at 1:40.  At the time, nothing was coming down, no clouds, completely calm.  But right at 1:30, snow started, and now it's pretty big flakes.  So I should boogie out of here pretty quick.  This is the last thing I have to do before packing up.  Maybe 2 hours late tomorrow? Who knows!

Food Sculptures

We got our first communication from our Romanian pen pals today!  I feel a little bad since we haven't sent them anything yet; my students have been focusing on their NaNo stories. But next week we'll send them something!  Our pen pals made a powerpoint with pictures of themselves doing a Christmas program (super fancy costumes) and playing football (aka-soccer) and with awards for something.  There weren't too many words, but it was still pretty neat.  We're going to write letters introducing ourselves and maybe send some pictures and/or videos of us doing stuff in a powerpoint.  That's the plan anyway.  They want to send a Christmas care package via mail, so I need to talk to their teacher about it first.


Our tree weaving projects are coming along nicely. I had them paint the background during read aloud... it took them longer to paint than I thought, which led to even more read-aloud time... something they were only too happy to accept.  After lunch, we had art (no math today!) and set up the plate looms and got started weaving.  It goes pretty fast.  Some were almost finished at the end of art today.  A few of the girls are double-weaving their projects, so they're doing it all in one color loosely, then weaving over it with another color.  They're all pretty excited about their weaving skills.  Now they want to make a huge loom, or I suggested weaving on a box.  There's a bunch of shoe boxes in the hallway; we might make looms out of them.  But it's getting closer to Christmas and with that comes Christmas present art projects.  Mrs. B had a bunch of ideas. To tell you the truth, present-making projects hadn't crossed my mind! I'm glad I have her around to remind me of important stuff.


Another day of Christmas program practice, and another day of hearing my male students complain about gypped recess.  Sigh.  I am not looking forward to hearing these arguments day after day for the rest of December.  After practice, we went to the gym and made food sculptures from the Food Drive donations we collected.  My class had some last minute donations this morning... we had about 160 items from our classroom (one kid brought in a big box).  Apparently I told them there might be a prize of extra recess. Since our class was obviously the winner of the classroom contest, my main recess supporter kept bugging and bugging, "Do we get our extra recess today? Do we? When do we get it? Is it time now?"  Another kid thought we were getting a pizza party.  I don't know where he got that idea!


The sculpture building went pretty well.  We looked up pictures of sculptures on the internet... they can be super creative: Big Bird, Minions, a bus, the Hunger Games symbol, a giant piece of pie... the list goes on and on.  Most of our little groups made crosses or buildings.  One group made a basketball.  Another made a baby.  A different group made a chef Boyardee guy almost as tall as a kindergartner!  Then we put all our food together to make giant letters: ILS, and we stood behind them and took an all school picture.  And had ice cream afterward as a snack. 


Now my classroom is tidied up, the shades are drawn, my desk is in order... I think I am ready to get out of here!  Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

3D Earth

Today was... interesting.  Everyone has Thanksgiving fever.  Even me.  We all want the week to be over so we can have Thanksgiving vacation! Woohoo!  Lots of my students who are normally okay behavior-wise were hard to settle this morning. 


Some of my students were ready to take their weavings off their looms.  Most listened to instructions and got it figured out... a few just took the whole thing off the loom and then said, "Now what Miss H?"  Well, now you have to be extra super careful it doesn't come completely apart...  Even those kids got it figured out eventually.  Mrs. B ran errands and picked up some heavy-duty paper plates for me so we can take our weaving to the next level.  Tomorrow we're painting the plates to look like a landscape scene, then we're weaving a tree using the plate as a loom.  It's a super cool project and I can't wait to see what the kids do with them!  I still need to refresh my memory on how to teach the project...


The 7th graders had their 3D earth projects due today.  I had them make models and label them instead of giving them another boring test.  One girl made a rice-crispy bar Earth with frosting.  The boys pretty much made the typical foam ball Earths (they said it took FOREVER to paint them), and the other girl made a paper plate Earth with yarn and glitter glue to show the layers.  I promised them I'd correct their projects tonight so they'd have their grades tomorrow.  Still gotta do that yet.  I had written on their whiteboard in the morning that they'd present their projects, and I wish now I would've had them simply hand them in.  There isn't a whole lot to talk about; everyone's information should be the same.  A few of them did extra neat things; one boy drew in tectonic plate lines, another found actual places around the globe that have shear, compression, and tension stress and labeled them.  But listening them read their information from their description cards got old really fast.  We had some other miscellaneous things to finish up too: take down the bells at church (they played super well on Sunday!), give a spelling test to a 7th grader who'd been absent Friday, and correct two spelling books that had not been at school to be corrected Friday.  We got it all done! 


I had planned for my 5th and 6th graders to have a workday on their solar system powerpoints, but alas the computers did not work.  So on to plan B.  Wishbone episode!  We watched the one on the Moonstone.  Then it was time for Christmas program practice.  We read through half the program and will do the other half tomorrow.  My class was not happy we missed PE/afternoon recess.  Unfortunately, that's the way it's going to be for the rest of December... program practice at 2:00, right at PE time.

No Zombie

I feel WAY more like myself today.  Compared to the rest of the week... I had been a zombie.  Today I had snack at school and actually ate all my hot lunch.  I think I'm finally mending up. 


For art today I taught my class weaving.  When they heard that's what we were doing they all groaned. "Oh man! I hate weaving! It's so hard! I can't do it! I'm so bad at it!"  I asked when they had done it last... pretty much everyone said 1st or 2nd grade.  Ha.  That's why!  I guaranteed them that it would be easier this time around.  And guess what? It was!  Everyone got the hang of it super fast.  The trickiest part was getting the weaving boards all set up.  Some of them liked it so much they worked on it during recess.  Others asked if they could bring it home with them!  Sweet!  Even my non-art-lovers seemed to have a good time.  This is good because next week we're taking weaving to the next level and making a paper plate weaving so it looks like a tree.  It's a pretty sweet project.


There's supposed to be snow coming tonight.  From the dim light outside my classroom it looks a bit hazy, like maybe some little flakes are coming down, but not a ton yet.  Meh.  I'm not ready for snow.  At least I don't have many places to go this weekend.  I need to get the exercise book finished tomorrow or Sunday, so lots of writing is planned.  And my kids sing/play bells Sunday.  Pretty much gonna hunker down and get some rest.  Only two days of school next week and then Thanksgiving break!!!

Drip, Drip, Drip

One of the 6th graders thought it would be funny if he pretended to be sleeping during class.  I knew he was faking it, but he wouldn't quit.  So I borrowed a trick from my old high school math teacher.  He kept a water bottle with holes in the lid on a shelf, and any time a student fell asleep, he'd hold the water bottle over that student's head and tilt it and tilt it and tilt it until water dripped on the sleeping person.


So I give him a warning about his possible bath... eyes stay closed.  I casually swing by my desk, pick up my water bottle, talking the whole time, saunter his way... the class is watching, watching, watching.  Just as I'm about to drip water on him, his eyes fly open and he scoots out of the way, "Whoa! She actually's doing it!"  Ha.  He didn't believe me.  Next time I think I'll use the spray bottle.


I've been kind of forgetful today.  It was a 6th grader's birthday, and she brought cupcakes for the whole class (I was able to eat mine! Yay! I've been feeling a lot better today...).  Still, we forgot to sing to her for her birthday! Oh well, we'd do it at the end of the day before getting on the bus.  Yep, I forgot again.  And I remembered as we made our way to the buses.  Sigh.  She was cool about it though; the kindergartners had sung when she dropped of Mrs. E's cupcake, so she did get the birthday song. 

Jello Earthquake

The 7th graders did a cool experiment today.  Or, at least, I thought it was cool.  We've been studying earthquakes in science, and only briefly touched on earthquake resistant buildings.  So I found a lab that had students build an earthquake resistant structure out of toothpicks and marshmallows.  To test them for earthquake resistance, you put them on a layer of jello and jiggle it around.  Then they can assess, redesign, and retest.  Last night I made some jello in a 9x13 pan and I actually remembered to bring it to school today!  The 7th graders seemed to have a good time.  One kid made an almost circular building on the first try (it didn't move around at all).  I limited their building resources, and that was the trickiest part for most of them.  "I just need one more toothpick!"  Yep, not happening.  Still, they each got to try two or three different designs. 


We got a little off topic today in American History.  Last time, we talked about slavery and the Underground Railroad, but didn't have a chance to listen to the song "Follow the Drinking Gourd", which is a song they'd sing to give instructions on how to escape to freedom.  I was going to have them listen to that song and then switch to a new topic, but the website that had the song on it also had information about quilts and the secret messages they held.  And along with that was an interactive "game" where you could design your own quilt.  So we did!  I drew sticks and they'd come up and pick a color and a shape to put in the square... and then they discovered they could layer them to get even more patterns... so we did that for the rest of the time.  Our block turned out really cool!  We put a cross in the middle and called it "A New Beginning". 


And now it's time for me to go home!  I have bible study tonight and lots of writing planned... and a plan to take it easy and go to bed early.  Only two more days left this week!  For whatever reason (probably cause I haven't been feeling well), this week has been dragging on and on and on...

Toilet Paper Planets

We did a science lab today about planetary distances that was kinda, meh.  It's one straight out of the science book.  Each kid got to be a planet, and we used toilet paper to represent the distance (counting squares to find the right locations).  Mr. E had PE in the gym, so we started on the other end of the hall and worked our way toward the gym.  Pluto was only a couple steps inside the gym.  It was an okay lab; not much for the kids to do.  We spent more time going over how to do it than actually making our model.  And once they were in position, there wasn't much for them to do.  They just stared at each other and chatted.  So.  That was that.


I brought a sack lunch to school today.  The doctor thinks part of my stomach lining is irritated, so I need to keep my diet bland for a while and take something to cut down on the acid in my stomach so the lining can heal.  It's going to take a few days for everything to start getting back to normal.  But even today by the time lunch/afternoon rolled around I was feeling a lot better.  I still didn't eat a ton, but it was more than just crackers!  Mrs. B brought me a smoothie with yogurt in it for snack.  She is such a God-send!


At the beginning of the day, my kids all wanted to know what I found out at my appointment... so I told them about my stomach being irritated, possibly from taking advil or just general stress.  One kid, "So you're saying it's because of us?"  No, I'm not pointing any fingers.  He gave me a slightly teasing, mischievous smile, "No, you're really saying we're the cause of your stress." 


Another random funny thing happened in religion.  One kid who only sometimes wears his glasses pulled them out and perched them on his nose (like a librarian).  Out of the blue (in the middle of class), he said something in a fancy accent, along the lines of, "I'm ready to check out a book!"


Well, that's all I got for today.  My presentation yesterday went really well, although it zapped all my energy.  I did notice a few guys in the back closing their eyes for a while, but I'll just chalk that up to the late hour... Now I'm headed for home to work on recuperating (and writing too).

El Salvador

Well, I made it through another day of school.  I have a doctor's appointment in a bit, so I'm leaving school early (Mr. E has PE today and will send my kids home).  Tonight, I'm presenting at church about my trip to El Salvador, so hopefully the appointment doesn't take too long. 

BINGO

Today's afternoon was a bit out of the ordinary.  For lunch we had Mexican Haystacks (chips with nacho cheese and hamburger) which always takes a long time to serve.  And the kids fuss about recess.  So Mr. E and I worked out a deal... we'd stay out for recess until 12:30, he'd keep my kids at math until 1:45 when the Lion's Club ladies came to talk about the Peace Posters.  I am still not feeling the greatest, so I gave the 7th graders a work day for their 3D earth projects.  When the Lion's club came, they all went down to Mr. E's room (he forgot they had to talk about how the Halloween party went too) and I had 15 minutes of quiet to correct papers, etc. 


All the winners of the Peace Poster contest were in my class!  And they all spent so much time on their posters, I'm glad they won.  Everyone who participated got a certificate, and two of the winners' names were spelled wrong! Josie was Jose and Beka was Becka.  The ladies are seeing if they can print new ones.  After the award ceremony, we all went to the gym for all-school BINGO.  It was super fun! We had younger kids paired up with older kids and we got two or three rounds in before the end of the day.  And cookies and juice afterwards. 


All in all, a good end to the week.  Now I'm off for Fairmont to watch my cousins' play!  The rest of the weekend I'm planning to hunker down and see if I can get over feeling crummy.

Short and Sweet

The one bad thing about not feeling well and skipping out of school things early is that everyone asks how you're feeling the next day.  Well, I'm not 100%, but I'm feeling a little better.  It comes and goes.  Mrs. B brought me some tea with honey.  That was lovely.  I could sip on it all morning.  Miss H watched my class at afternoon recess so I could do some work in my classroom (or just take a few minutes to regroup).


My first conference is at 3:15 today, so I'll keep this post short and sweet.  My schedule is to go straight through with no breaks from 3:15-7:30.  And I just found out a group of 20 people is coming to tour the school, like, right now, to learn more about it.  I guess it's a group of people that go tour places to find out more about the community.  Well, why not?  But my room is clean, I'm all set up for conferences, so I should be okay for visitors.

Blech

Miss H is playing hooky from the PTL meeting tonight.  Actually, I have permission from the Erdmans.  I haven't been feeling the greatest today, a bit achy and chilled and slightly feverish, so I'm going to go home and attempt to sleep it off.  Of course I start to feel sick the day before Parent Teacher Conferences!  Thankfully I don't have a whole lot to do in my classroom tonight, so I should get out of here pretty soon.


The school day was all right.  Very productive morning.  I had a bag of new books I'd gotten from the library book sale on my desk to be catalogued and one of my biggest readers caught sight of them.  She pulled out a book and flipped through it.  "Miss H, can I read this now?"  Sure, as long as you put it back.  Apparently once I gave permission for that one book, she took it to mean free reign on the rest of the books in the bag.  I saw her put the first back, pull out another one, put that one back, pull out another one.  She's going to read them all before I even get them catalogued!  They're mostly picture books, a lot of traditional literature, so not very long at all.


My NaNo story is lagging behind.  I'm at 7,000 when I should be around 10,000-11,000.  Still, my word count is nothing to sneeze at.  I had a good discussion with some of my kids about my story; they were very encouraging.  I might need to pick their brains to get more ideas for my story.  One kid hasn't started his yet.  Or, he says he has, but it's at home somewhere where he can't find it.  I made him write at school and he stared at his paper for most of the time.  So.  I'm a little worried about that.  Might be a good idea to mention something at conferences tomorrow.


Anyway, I think it's about time for me to go home.  Hopefully I'm feeling back to normal tomorrow!

Grades

Report cards went home today...


I'm always a little nervous about grades.  Mostly because I don't put a whole lot of stock in them; as long as the students are trying their best (and that's something I can tell), and as long as they're learning, I am happy.  But everyone else expects grades, so we have a grade book.   Sometimes the grades aren't what the parents think their children should be getting, and then they come asking me, "Why did my kid get this grade?"  And then the explaining... Sigh.  It stresses me out.  Anyway.  I'll just have to put on my big girl pants and deal with it.


Before school this morning was a little crazy.  Mr. E hadn't gotten me my math grades on Monday, so I had to write them all in this morning, then make copies of the report cards in case someone lost theirs, then print a separate grade percentage page that I put inside the report cards, and stick them all in the little folder each goes in.  And put them in the mailboxes.  And deal with all the missing papers students forgot to hand in (or had to fix).  But I got it all done!


With the start of the new quarter, we FINALLY got to change seats.  As soon as the kids walked in the door, "Miss H, you didn't move our desks! Don't we get new seats?"  Yep, I wasn't about to move 15 desks all by myself.  "When do we get our new spots?"  After answering that question twice, I wrote a note on the board "We will move seats AFTER religion."  We move our desks in a big circle for religion, so everyone already has to move their desks a little.  I wrote the new arrangement on the board, prefacing it with the whole don't-get-mad-and-complain spiel.  One kid in particular was not happy with this new arrangement.  His best buds get to sit by each other for the second time in a row and he's stuck by people he didn't want to be by (I know because I took a survey of the class... name three people you work well with and one you don't work well with).  But everyone has to go somewhere, and this kid likes to run his mouth, especially around his friends.  So far his new spot has been good.  There are two boys who I think might need to be moved closer to the front... time will tell.


I think my little plants are toast.  I forgot to extra water them for the long weekend... they're pretty crispy.  I doused them with water, but they might be beyond help.  Joe's doing fine though... I remembered to feed him.  Currently, he's under a bunch of his bedding, which fits tomorrow's forecast of rain.  We'll see if Joe the weather tortoise is right!

23,203

23,203.  That's how many words my students wrote this week.  Can I get a yeehaw? One was sick today, so his words aren't counted in this total. Mrs. B has been writing too, but I don't know how many words she has.  I have 4,172, so I'm a little behind on my story.  Last night I was so pooped after a crazy day of school and Ivy's art thing, I had no creative energy.  I did work on the exercise book a bit though.  It's a lot easier to write when the thoughts have already been thought for you.


I gave out BINGO prizes today since it's the end of the quarter.  One 6th grade girl got a blackout.  A few others got bingos.  The rest of the class has been steadily reading, but they didn't read the right genre of books to get a bingo.  And most of them forgot to write the titles in their Reading Notebooks.  So.  No prizes for them.  NaNo prizes on the other hand went like hotcakes!  Each 500 words is a chance for a prize: the 500s are a piece of candy and the 1000s are a bigger prize from the prize box.  I was surprised that so many of them chose to combine two of their candy prizes to get a big prize from the lab table.  I'm going to need more things next week though; 15 kids picking multiple things has cleaned me out pretty good!  The most popular items are caramel apple suckers and Slinkys.  And things from El Salvador. 


Now I'm off to Fulda for the weekend! No school on Monday for the end of the quarter.  I need to get my grades done, my NaNo progressing, and a lot of the exercise book written.  Monday Dad and I are preg checking cows.  Is it weird I'm a little excited for that???

What's with the suit?

One of the 6th grade boys wore a suit to school today.  Just because he could.  I think he's looking for attention.  Yesterday he wore a polo shirt and jeans, an outfit unheard of in my class of Under Armour-clad athletes.  Everyone wanted to know why he was so dressed up, and he said he just felt like wearing it... maybe tomorrow he'd wear a suit!  No one expected him to do it, but that's what he wore to school today!  He changed clothes after math so he could play football at afternoon recess... though he didn't have any tennis shoes.


I'm going to keep this short today since Ivy has her art thing.  Tomorrow is the end of the quarter, so we're dishing out prizes for NaNo word counts and BINGOs.  The 7th graders will probably watch a Bill Nye episode on plate tectonics.  I have an art project planned, but I'm not real excited about it... maybe I'll change my mind at the last second.

Frog

At noon recess, the football boys found a frog.  I saw them out on the football field, making their way toward me cupping something in their hands.  Ploop! The frog slipped to the ground.  And the 4-square girls screamed.  Apparently they hate frogs.  I don't know what ended up happening to it.  One girl said she kicked it and it was dead, but I don't know if I believe her.  The last I saw of it, it was hopping away from all the noisy kids. 


Turns out there were a few of my kiddos who hadn't actually started their NaNos yet.  Well, they started typing, but it was just a random story and not actually the stuff they'd prepared last week.  I don't get it.  We spent so much time developing the characters and coming up with ideas of what would happen to them, and then when it comes time to write, they don't even write about it!  Maybe I should make a more obvious connection between those pieces of paper/characters and the start of their story.  But, I got those two students squared away and as far as I know they're bustling along in their stories.  It's so great to have them call me over and say, "Miss H, look how many words I have! I'm already up to [insert big number here]."  Even my reluctant writer wrote 250 words just today!  Hopefully he can keep up the pacing.  Now our greatest trouble is finding enough computers for everyone to use.  There are two Daily 5 rounds they can work on their stories.  But 15 kids with only 6 computers makes it a little tricky.  So far they've been good about switching rounds so everyone can have a turn on the computer. 


I only have one student without a parent teacher conference time.  And I only have one slot left from 3:15-7:30 (conference times are 15 minutes).  Whew! Next Thursday is going to be a whirlwind day!  And in between now and then I need to enter grades, get report cards ready, and gather all the stuff to talk to parents about.  I kinda forgot how much goes into these conferences. 


I'd like to put my grades in the grade book before Friday, but I don't think I'll have time.  Tomorrow after school we have a faculty meeting, and then Ivy has an art gallery open house thing (for her internship) in Mankato from 5-7.  Mr. E promised to keep the meeting short so I could get out of school fast!  Tack on correcting spelling papers and NaNo-ing and the exercise book I'm editing, it's going to be a full night!

Typical

Nothing too extraordinary to report today.  Just a few random thoughts about the day...


More NaNo progress.  I'm at 2017 words now, and my kids are still excited about writing.  I think on Friday we'll have to have a goal assessment to see if any kids need to make their word count goals higher.  We've been doing way more writing this year than last year, and I can definitely tell the practice has helped my students write more and write faster.  I've seen a lot of them using periods in the right places! Yay! Still need to work on dialogue though.  We'll work on that. 


We examined our sprouts in science.  Most of them forgot where they'd put their lab sheet from last week.  Then commenced a giant man-hunt for the lost papers.  All but two found where they put them. 


School pictures came in today.  My hair looks dumb in mine.  But it's kind of silly to have teacher retakes for pictures, so I guess I'll just deal with it.  All my kids' turned out cute!  A few didn't show their teeth in their smiles... they look better with toothy smiles. 


After school, Miss N and I met to assign students Christmas program speaking parts.  I think we have it mostly figured out.  The bell songs for November sound really good, probably the best prepared we've ever been for songs.  I'm thinking we might need to add some more songs to our repertoire because there's not much to work on during practice.  Perhaps Christmas songs should be pulled out...


I'm not liking how early it gets dark out.  It's so bright driving to school in the morning and by the time I pack up to go home, it's totally dark!  I wish it'd be the other way around.  This too shall pass, I suppose.

Happy Birthday

One of the 5th graders had a birthday today.  His mom dropped off a cake this morning.  At lunch, his sister asked if there was any cake left... probably hoping she'd get some of the leftovers... with 15 kids plus 5 teachers, there wasn't any cake to spare.  We cleaned the plate!  The boys in my class, tricksters they are, decided it would be funny to pretend it was not this kid's birthday and to say nothing about it at all the whole day.  That would've been fine, but then they started saying stuff like, "Hey [other student], isn't it your birthday today?" "Nope, it's not mine."  "Well, [another student] isn't it your birthday?" "Nope."  When the birthday boy said, "It's my birthday!"  The ringleader said, "No, I'm pretty sure your birthday is December 2nd.  It's not yours today."  Yeah, the birthday boy didn't get the joke.  So I put the kibosh on that. 


Our NaNo kickoff went pretty well today.  Yesterday I wrote about 800 words of my own story.  I think I'm going to go with the teacher goal of 30,000 words.  That means I only write 1,000 a day, which I think is doable.  For those of you who don't know, I've been doing some freelance writing on the side lately.  The guy who hired me has a new assignment: to write a manual on exercising training from his 90 page outline.  Basically I have to put his words into paragraph format.  Not super difficult, just time consuming.  Add that on to school work and NaNo... I'm a busy girl. 


But back to my kiddos!  My top writer last year started his yesterday and he coincidentally also has 800 words.  Or he did at the start of the day.  He wrote more during Daily 5 this morning.  I've got some catching up to do!  Some kids now have 300 words, others have 50 or 80.  All have something!  One kid had typed about 300 words and logged off his computer.  He thought he'd saved it, but when he logged on later, he couldn't find it!  He had to start over.  Bummer.


Oh, other good news! The seeds are sprouting!  The sunflowers have grown the most so far, beans next, then peas/corn.  My kiddos were so excited to see the sprouts.  I need to remember to have them examine the roots/leaflets for geotropism or the other tropisms.  Tomorrow perhaps.