Anyone who thinks the school year should be longer needs to hang out in one the last two weeks....
Today, the second graders toured Elementary and the 4th graders saw PIC (their new campus) earlier in the week. They always see a sibling or cousin or neighbor on the tours, and being a small town, they've most likely been on the campus before, but it is still scary for them. They come back with all sorts of questions and conceptions and fears, and it's nice to see them a little intimidated for once!! It's only one of the "End of school" activities that make them even crazier than they would normally be!!
We have a tradition at the Elementary that the last day of school, we walk down to the local theatre and spend a couple of hours at the movie. The kids are cool, fed, and confined to their chairs during that time, and we always look with anticipation to what the movie will be.
No more. With our staggered dismissal this year, the movie is a thing of the past. It makes me sad, and I've not even gone the past few years !! Usually, I'm back on campus working of folders and such, but it just isn't right. There's so little that's fun about school these days, and we've just long another one....
Oh, well.
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Hello! :)
No movie this year!?!? What in the world!?!? That has been going on since I was in school there. And as a teacher, I really anticipated that time taken during the day....
My friend calls the new campus tours the "reality check" of the year. All year, they are the big men on campus and then they are quite humbled by becoming the little fish in the pond again. They come back curious and scared. :)
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