We had a normal morning followed by an out-of-the-ordinary afternoon. Well, I thought it would be normal. Only two kids were ready for their memory work hymn quiz. Also, I couldn't find the printed out copies. Next week's quiz is "Jesus Loves Me", so I decided to swap them. We did "Jesus Loves Me" on the fly and saved "Dear Christians One and All Rejoice" for next week.
I was supposed to do PE with Mr. N's class, but there were signs on the gym doors saying the gym was off-limits because it was set up for the afternoon's pep fest. Hmm. Okay. Plan B? Could we use part of the gym for our parachute game? No. Instruments everywhere. I let the class vote on playing games in the classroom or going outside for recess. Outdoor recess won. It snowed a few inches yesterday, so we actually had snow for once!
In the afternoon, I mixed up the schedule to maximize our time. We did devotions and practiced our hymn for next week, then wrapped up a few questions of Social Studies we hadn't gotten to earlier in the week. Mr. N's class is a little behind then, but they're usually quicker to finish things, so I'm sure I can get them caught up next week. Cheerleaders had to get ready at 1pm, band members at 1:15, pep fest at 1:30. I had one cheerleader and two band members. So for the rest of the class...
I gave them time to finish their optical illusion art project, work on handwriting, or play a game called Whatchamadrawit. The kids who played LOVED it and asked me to leave it at school so they could play next week. It has cards that give drawing prompts (they used their whiteboards) such as a pig riding a bike with an ice cream cone, or a frog riding on an airplane. Silly things that are challenging but fun to draw.
The pep fest was okay. I like Immanuel's better. We had each class do a cheer and then the players played some games on the court. Today's had no games and no class cheers; the cheer squad led the cheers. There were some really neat parts, like the band playing the Star Spangled Banner along with a few pep band cheer songs. The cheerleaders were also great. They had a floor routine with gymnastic tricks and small pyramids. Very impressive.
They led the school in rousing cheers too. Two particularly rowdy cheers: one side says "We've got spirit, yes we do, we've got spirit, how about you?" and the other side says the same thing. The only problem is, no one knew when to quit, so they kept doing it over and over for about five minutes. The cheer coach tried to step in and get them to stop, but they didn't pay attention. Neither did the crowd. Finally she got the cheerleaders to wave their pompoms and run to the other side of the gym so they could usher the basketball players in.
The second was the "who can be the loudest?" cheer, also known as the battle cry cheer. Class by class, the cheerleaders ask to hear their battle cry. Mr. Z uses a decibel tracker on his phone to see who the loudest is. One of the kids said it was rigged, the 8th graders always win (confirmed by the principal), but this year (maybe because of that conversation), the 5th graders won. It wasn't announced very well.
I also expected them to announce winners of the door decorating or which class dressed up the most during the week (we had to keep track of numbers). Nope. All he said was 90% of students dressed up the whole week. That's still an impressive number!
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