Last week my class went to the Delaware Children's Museum. It just opened this summer, and it was really nice! There were so many things for the kids to do and play with, and we all had a great time. I took some pictures, but they didn't turn out that great. Mostly I was focusing my attention on not losing anyone, so the pictures were an afterthought. It was a great trip, but I'd love to go back again sometime soon and only take 2 or 3 kids with me. That way I could do some of the stuff too! Here are a few of the pictures...
This was a game one of the kids invented that I enthusiastically encouraged...who can freeze like the Christopher Columbus statue the longest. It kept the van ride to the museum very quiet. While this child did the best job copying the facial expression and pose of the statue, he kept bursting out laughing so sadly didn't win.
The same child ready to do some constructing.
Here you got to dance on a stage (you were supposed to imitate the kids on the screen doing dances from around the world) and you could see yourself on the TV screen. I had some fun with that until I realized I was probably embarrassing myself and decided to just watch my class instead of busting a move with them. There was another school group there from one of the fancy private schools, and they were scared to come on stage with my kids. Their teachers kept trying to get them to go up, but they wouldn't. The must have been intimidated by my class's sweet moves!
In other news, we had a lot of snow this week and got two snow days out of it. We almost got three snow days, but we were the only school in northern Delaware open today as far I know. i was really grumpy about it last night when I found out we were going to have a 2 hour delay when everyone else was closed mostly because 1) I was feeling lazy and didn't want to have to leave the house 2) I knew the roads were still bad and the parking lot and sidewalks at school weren't going to be adequately cleared (I was right) and 3) I had just eaten the lunch I'd packed for dinner because I felt SURE school would be canceled. So then I had to repack my lunch. And that just made me grumpy. School was fine though...only 5 of the 9 kids came. We painted what we thought peace looked like and watched Lilo and Stitch with Pre-K in the afternoon.
Sunday I leave for my recruiting trip to western PA, and I'm excited about all the wonderful people I'm going to see! I'm praying my class will do OK with their subs while I'm gone!
This was a game one of the kids invented that I enthusiastically encouraged...who can freeze like the Christopher Columbus statue the longest. It kept the van ride to the museum very quiet. While this child did the best job copying the facial expression and pose of the statue, he kept bursting out laughing so sadly didn't win.
The same child ready to do some constructing.
Here you got to dance on a stage (you were supposed to imitate the kids on the screen doing dances from around the world) and you could see yourself on the TV screen. I had some fun with that until I realized I was probably embarrassing myself and decided to just watch my class instead of busting a move with them. There was another school group there from one of the fancy private schools, and they were scared to come on stage with my kids. Their teachers kept trying to get them to go up, but they wouldn't. The must have been intimidated by my class's sweet moves!In other news, we had a lot of snow this week and got two snow days out of it. We almost got three snow days, but we were the only school in northern Delaware open today as far I know. i was really grumpy about it last night when I found out we were going to have a 2 hour delay when everyone else was closed mostly because 1) I was feeling lazy and didn't want to have to leave the house 2) I knew the roads were still bad and the parking lot and sidewalks at school weren't going to be adequately cleared (I was right) and 3) I had just eaten the lunch I'd packed for dinner because I felt SURE school would be canceled. So then I had to repack my lunch. And that just made me grumpy. School was fine though...only 5 of the 9 kids came. We painted what we thought peace looked like and watched Lilo and Stitch with Pre-K in the afternoon.
Sunday I leave for my recruiting trip to western PA, and I'm excited about all the wonderful people I'm going to see! I'm praying my class will do OK with their subs while I'm gone!
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