Dress to Impress Day

Another drama-filled day...

Before I even finished unpacking my teacher bag this morning, I found out we were supposed to have brought pitchers, serving trays, and pickle trays from church.  And the water pitchers were supposed to have been filled.  And we were supposed to have put out the place settings on the tables.  Oops.  So Mr. D and I gathered up the necessities at church and got them to the cook in plenty of time.  Still, both of us had been at church yesterday after school; it would've been so easy to pick up the stuff then instead of making a special trip in the morning.  The place setting thing the cooks said they'd take care of, we didn't have to worry about it.  Whew!

Aside from that oopsie, the day went pretty well. Wind gusts were strong today, so we shuttled kids over to church for chapel. We had to have it there to give our blind magician enough time/space to set up for his act.  After chapel we all bused back to school and settled in the bleachers for our entertainment.  They weren't quite ready, which set our morning schedule back by a few minutes.  He was really good! Definitely funny and lighthearted with his jokes, both regular jokes and jokes about his blindness, he brought God into his message quite a bit too, and he could play the harmonica!

Since he started late, we got a late start on the awards/announcements made before dinner was served: Bucket Prize winner from this quarter, January's and February's Student of the Month winners, and Fire Poster Winners.  It took a while to announce all those, so we started lunch a half an hour later than planned.  I'm sure my kids were all STARVING!

After lunch with our guests, we packed up the tables/chairs. The 5-8th graders were supposed to practice bells at church at 1:00, but we got over there later because of the table take-down.  Mr. E kept telling us to just go and the younger grades could pack up, but it took a while to round everyone up and set up the bell tables at church.  The 5th graders are playing tone chimes with us, so we needed every single bell table set up over at church.  There isn't enough foam over there, so Miss S and I had to bring some of the school's foam over after school (and an extra table too).  Now I think we're all set!

There was added drama to bells tonight because one of the 8th graders has to be at church in St. Peter, but no one told me about that until his mom texted me an hour ago.  We have no replacements since the 5th graders are playing tone chimes.  Miss S said she could maybe play one bell, but she's directing the chimes across the aisle, so it might sound weird. Thankfully, his mom texted back (after many other texts) that he would be there some way or another.  Praise the Lord for supportive parents!

We also had Fine Arts Fair dress rehearsal this afternoon.  A lot of the piano players didn't have their music, so we just had them practice introducing themselves.  The 7-8th graders got bucky about having to sit there; they wanted to do their homework since the FAF rehearsal was during the time they normally get for study hall.  Nope, be a good audience member, I told them.  I got a lot of eye rolling and 'are you serious?' and some other mumbled, grumbled comments.  Sigh, there must be another surge of hormones going around because their attitudes have been terrible this past week!  Anyway, we made it through the day.  Three down, two to go (plus the Fine Arts Fair).