The 7th graders had their Medieval Life presentations due today. Most were kind of scrambling to get them done, despite the fact they've been working on them for two weeks. One girl found a recipe for Medieval gingerbread. It was breadcrumbs, honey, ground ginger, ground cloves, and pepper. Word of this gingerbread reached me much sooner than this student actually did... apparently, she let kids on the bus try it and they spit it out because they thought it tasted gross. So the rest of the 7th graders tried to bargain with me, "Miss H, if we eat this gingerbread stuff, will we get extra credit?" No. "But a kid practically threw up on the bus!" Still no. "Can we at least get our water bottles?" Sure. It actually wasn't that bad, just spicy. And you have to eat it in very small bites. Most of the 7th graders ended up thinking it wasn't too bad.
We got a new song in bells today... it's five pages. They would've freaked out more, but I've been telling them about this song for a while. Today's practice was spent highlighting their notes and going over what the special symbols mean. We're doing thumb damping, bell swinging, jingling, table thumping... not the technical terms by any means! By the time everything was straightened out, practice was over! So we'll try the song next Tuesday.
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