It's amazing how just one warm and sunny day can bring things around. Knowing yesterday was going to be almost 80, I wore my favorite spring time floral skirt (on which I got many compliments, by the way). It was fabulous to leave the house without a jacket. Of course, though, being the first hot day of the year, the school building was absolutely steaming. My 5th period classroom was swampy, in fact. I was already feeling a bit nauseous after lunch and then you add the heat and stale smell of 9th graders...yuck. I took the liberty of holding class outside. I switched things up a bit so that we could just read for the rest of the period (We're in chapter 7 of The Great Gatsby, personal fav). Fortunately, my 5th period is just 12 juniors, so I knew I could "manage" them outside. We walked out to the picnic tables outside the cafeteria, and there we basked in the sunshine...reading and enjoying a nice breeze. The best was that EVERYONE read. After we do some whole group reading, I let them choose to read independently or aloud with a partner, and I even saw a group of my most rambunctious boys at a table in the shade reading as a whole group of 5. Fabulous. I sunned and simply enjoyed the quiet time outside. I didn't even do work. I partially re-read...but I mostly enjoyed :)
One brief glimpse of what April can bring! (Aside from all this rain, today..of course)
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