My kiddos got creative at recess today. Three boys used various tools they found (left at the school's front door for snow removal purposes) to "mine" the hill. That's the exact word they used too. They wanted the icy powder to put on the already semi-icy kickball field so "it will melt and get even icier. Then we can ice skate on it!" Creative, but I don't think the weather will warm up enough this week. Plus there's another snowstorm on the horizon.
The girls were on an ice hunt. They searched all the nooks and crannies of the playground for ice left behind from this week's earlier rainstorm. They found a really good piece in a tilted up sled and struck gold in the mud kitchen's pots and pans. The real motherload was in two sleds tucked back in the space between my classroom and the gym. Some other grades had collected the ice chunks a different recess and then forgot about them (there was a layer of snow on top).
A final group of students opted to organize the gym shed instead of play outside. They were fed up with the basketball racks always getting shoved in our coatroom; it makes it really hard to get around. So I told them to problem solve. Cleaning the shed was their solution. It looks FANTASTIC in there... tons of space for everything. Now to just keep it that way...
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