Honey Baked Ham

Basketball home games today after school, both A and B squad.  Things must've gotten a little rough because two kids came into my room looking for bandaids.  One girl was using a Honey Baked Ham as an ice pack because she couldn't find any other ice packs.  Turns out, she'd been looking in the wrong freezer!

All day my kids were strangely subdued (probably tired) and at the same time tense.  There were lots of quarrels during recess and physical altercations.  Besides those few scratches though, there hasn't been any blood!

In other news, I remembered both the NaNo story and a blanket!  Woo!  The 5th grader was super excited to see it on her desk this morning.

Also, we finally found entertainment for NLSW!  Well, we haven't booked anything yet, but we found some other options.  Before today, none of the entertainment options were terribly thrilling.  I had found information about The Chalk Guy, who seemed like a great option (he draws a picture with chalk while he talks about his struggles with ADD/ADHD), but his publicist said it costs $4500 to book him for a gig.  Just a liiiittle out of our price range.  We could try to book with another organization in the area to split the cost, but that would still be way beyond our budget.  Another chalk guy is from Iowa who seems more reasonable, but his message was shorter and seemed more like a chapel service kind of thing.  The backup plan was going to be Doug Larson, a local singer who has entertained at our school in the past.  I have a feeling the 5-8th graders wouldn't be too thrilled with the singing.  So we were kind of stumped.

Miss S googled local entertainment options in MN and found two good options all of us on the committee are actually excited about. One of them is Jeffo the Blind Magician (lives in St. Paul). He's a motivational speaker (and does magic) and says he doesn't want to turn anyone away because of cost.  The starting price on his website is $179, definitely in our price range!  Plus he does a lot of presentations for kids, so we know he'll be good.  The other guy is a clean, Christian comedian, also from St. Paul, who calls himself Juice.  He's just starting out, but he's performed at the State Fair and other low key venues.  I watched some of his videos and I'm not sure if he's funny or not.  Could be my mood, or I'm not the right audience... I should probably show some to my kiddos and see what they think.