Two Days

You can tell it's a two day week... The morning started off quiet and focused, and over the course of the morning it spiraled into loud learning and less focus. Before lunch, we played telephone pictionary, one of my favorite games to play with my cousins at holidays (even as adults!).

Each person starts with a stack of small papers, the number as many as there are people playing. You write a phrase on the top sheet, something holiday-ish usually. Then you hand your whole stack to the person to your right. That person looks at your phrase, places that paper at the bottom of the stack, then draws a picture of the phrase on the blank paper at the top of the stack. Then you pass the stack to the person to your right. So it goes phrase, picture, phrase, picture. You keep passing around the circle until your words make it back to you. Then you see how how the final picture evolved from your original phrase! They can get pretty messed up!

We let the 7-8th graders go ahead of us in the lunch line so we could finish our game. Some of them wanted to play again right away! Nope. Too hungry.

Our sewing club grandma came for noon recess today and had a good sewing class with the girls. I like it when she comes at noon so the 7-8th graders can do it if they want. I found out that this grandma drives 50mi to come to our school! Wow! She said she doesn't mind; people drive that far for work every day and she likes to help out. (She has a kindergarten grandson and usually reads a book to their class on the days she's here too).

The first day of program practice went well. Mrs. L and I switched a few songs around after school to break up the speaking parts a bit more. We also picked out a new bell song since one of the ones we picked out is too easy and isn't the melody I thought it was. Tomorrow we'll run through the rest of it and call it a week!