No School?

That was the question of the day from my kids.  Oh those weather people! Filling my students' heads with dreams of a cancelled day of school.  "Sleepy Eye called off school early! What if New Ulm does? Do we get to go home early?" Guys, they're not calling school off early.  We're only getting rain. "LOOK! IT'S SNOWING!" Okay, but look, it's not sticking. "THEY'RE GOING TO CALL SCHOOL OFF!" No, really, it's not that bad out there.  We're having school until the end of the day. "THEY'RE GOING TO CALL SCHOOL OFF!"

So that was my morning.

Our religion lesson was about Aaron and Hur holding up Moses' hands while Joshua battled the Amalekites (Exodus 17, I believe, if you want to check it out for yourselves).  My kiddos wanted to see what it was like to hold their arms up in the air for as long as they could (okay, I did challenge them).  They kept them up the rest of religion and into read-aloud time.  One by one they dropped their arms; they couldn't keep them up anymore.  But three of the 6th graders were in it to win it.  They kept their arms up to get a drink in the hallway (Mr. E noticed), and tried to eat snack with no hands (theirs were still up in the air!). Then they wanted to work on their handwriting (due today) that they hadn't finished yet.  But that's kind of hard to accomplish with hands in the air.

They were pretty creative coming up with solutions... one girl tried having a classmate hold her handwriting book above her head so she could still write with her hands in the air.  That didn't work too well.  Someone else suggested lying on her tummy so she could still keep her hands up, but the book could lie on the floor.  The boys came up with the best solution; they laid on their backs under a table and held their handwriting pages up on the bottom of the table so their hands would still be in the air, but they could still see what they were doing.  They lasted that way for about a half an hour.  They would've kept going, but they were distracting their classmates too much, so I made them quit.  They were all supposed to drop their hands at the same time so there wouldn't be one winner, but the boys kept their hands up even after I said to drop, so the 6th grade girl 'lost'.  But everyone said the boys were cheating and it didn't count.  After that the boys went to get a drink again and I saw them stick their hands back in the air, still trying to outdo each other... oh boy.

Well, I suppose I should get out of here.  It's still snowing a little and the wind is pretty gusty.  30-50mph winds this afternoon.  So far it's becoming slush and not ice.  But 4:00 is when the temperature is supposed to dip, and I probably should get home sooner rather than later.  I have a pretty lazy weekend planned: write lots of words on my NaNo (I'm still behind by 600 words), read books, watch movies (the Bookmobile had a bunch of new-ish ones!).  Sunday we play bells and sing in church.  That's about it!