Today was our annual Field Day, the event which our PE teacher equally looks forward to and dreads all year long. The kids spend all morning rotating through different stations -- you've got the standard relay, 50-yard dash, long jump, tug-of-war, and potato sack and 3-legged races, but also African dance, jumprope, basketball shootout, and bubbles (yes, bubbles). Then there's a big barbecue and everyone eats lunch in the courtyard. This year, unlike last, the weather was perfect -- sunny, but not devastatingly hot, and most importantly, not raining and 45 degrees. By the time lunch ended, ten of my students had gone home with their families (always something I hope for on Field Day), and the 16 of us left spent the rest of the afternoon peacefully doing some silent reading. It was a beautiful thing.
We have one full week left, although Thursday will be spent with Junior Achievement, a day where local businesspeople spend all day indoctrinating youngsters into a bourgeouis capitalist lifestyle, and Friday is continuation (do you remember a big ceremony when you 'graduated' from fifth grade? I don't), plus our class picnic and a fifth grade vs teachers kickball game. Then, the powers that be who so wisely create our calendar have decreed a three-day weekend followed by another day and a half of school. Okaaay. I have been trying to subtly convince the fifth graders that they really don't need to return to school -- after all, they have their report card and their continuation certificate, and we'll just be cleaning the room.... I'm not sure it will be completely successful, as their parents don't really want them hanging around any more than I do!
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