Gender Reveal

A conversation overheard before school as two 7-8th grade boys studied their morning memory work:

"Matthew 1:21... the first gender reveal!"

"...but wasn't Jesus mentioned in the bible before Matthew?"

"No, no, they just said a savior would be born. Not that he'd be a boy."

At afternoon recess, my kids played with bubbles. It was cold enough that the bubbles didn't pop right away, so the bubbles floated all over the kickball field and they chased after them, running and jumping to pop them. It was so fun to watch them play. 

Science with the 5-6th graders was epic. Today's topic was an intro to the planets. We watched a video that compares Earth to the universe. Their minds were blown. We watched the video twice and they would've watched it a third time, just to get everything to sink in. Of course they had a million questions (seriously, it was a lot), and the questions are all things we're going to learn very soon, but not today. I tried to give them quick, short answers, but their thirst for immediate knowledge is insatiable. Whew! They probably won't be happy when I tell them we're doing history tomorrow instead of science...

PS- we did finish our read aloud book today. We voted on the next one to start tomorrow, Notorious by Gordon Korman.