We FINALLY got to open our presents from before Christmas. The kids all told each other who they had, so that part wasn't a surprise. Some of them told each other what their letter initials meant, but a few kept it a secret. One girl wanted "painting things" and got purple things instead. One girl wanted GS (she couldn't remember what her letters stood for) and got "girl stuff." Four students got exactly what they wanted: Two guys got nerf guns. Another got tractor toys. One girl got a fuzzy blanket.
We also tried the last of the Japanese candy. Boy that was a mixed bag! Some tasted pretty good, others were quite strange. There was enough left over for the 7-8th graders to try it too. They liked the flavored pretzi sticks better than the 5-6th did: lemon, apple, matcha, steak, wasabi, butter, salmon, and two others we couldn't identify.
I cried twice today. Not from anything real! The ending of our read-aloud book was sad. We split it up into two parts so we could finish our Daily 5 rounds in the morning and read the last part at the end of the day. Our projector screen went funky this morning again, so I didn't know if we'd be able to use it. I checked the projector after school and it worked fine now (of course), but it was fine that we took it easy today. My kids have missed out on a lot of fun stuff this year; taking one day to have a little class party isn't the end of the world. 😊
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