Beautiful Snow Day!!!

Poor Mr. NoNo...

Yesterday brought the first day of snow in EP for the holiday season. It was exciting for the munchkins, as well as, their teacher...Yippie! Snow just brings out such happy feelings, happy times, and it also created new memories for these little munchkins who have only been around 5 years. Wow!! Can I remember back to my first experience of snow?...hmmm....not sure if I can remember that far back..haha...I swear I'm an early Alzie or just not using my brain as much anymore! I'm not sure if I was five but it was when I was little and we would go downtown to the Placita during Christmas to see the tree, the moving decorations, and the nativity scene and there was a little snow. Love going there during the holidays and I planning on going this year too. Hopefully my little munchkins will be able to have the same wonderful experience with their parents as I did. Another memory of snow was in April many moons ago...yes April, the weirdest thing but the funnest too!

Last night the district followed along with most of the other districts and decided to start school 2 hours later today. Very nice for us!! Not very nice for parents!!! Eeek! Waking up to a beautiful white fluffy blanket of snow on everything was the best sight to see. It was still snowing and great to leave two hours later than usual. Why can't we start school at 9:30? Not that I'm a late sleeper it just seems the munchkins were more alert or maybe it was the excitement of the fluffy white stuff! Did I mention how many little munchkins showed up to class?...Well, I predicted 10 and to start the morning I had 8...~Woohoo!!! Twenty minutes later 2 more popped in...total for the day was 10! Still a Woohoo moment!! 10 munchkins only exist in Lala Land! Today was truly Lala Land in Munchkinville!!! It was heaven!!! The things I could do with only 10 munchkins!!

They were so excited about the snow and wanted to go out and play in it. ~I did too!! I had to control my excitement for them as well. Because half the class was missing they drew and wrote about the snow. Then I pulled out my Christmas decorations and Christmas tree and we started getting into the holiday spirit. Thank goodness for 99.9 who plays Christmas music all day long!!! The only thing missing was the hot chocolate which I thought of taking but didn't. ~Darn!

As I set up the tree they were cutting out little hands for our hallway paper tree. Boy oh boy, some of those little hands! The cutest thing is when I get alien hands, monster hands, 3 or 4 finger hands...eek! haha! They were so quiet and in deep concentration while working. haha! We need a lot more practice with scissors and cutting around and in between! Out of the 10 in class maybe half did decent hands and didn't amputate any fingers! Heehee! Once they finished cutting I put them together and presto! A Christmas tree!


Lunch came about an hour into arriving at school. The munchkins were also surprised...~It's lunch time already? That was fast! They also kept asking if I was going to take them outside like we tip toed out yesterday...~shh! don't tell anyone! heehee Of course I would, but I told them we would need to do some more work after lunch. That's when my little smarty pants, Mr. Blue Shoes said, ~but why are we going to do work when not everyone is here or are we going to do it again tomorrow? ~Yes, he makes sense but...shh.. I'm not going to tell him that! :) ~Don't worry Mr. Blue Shoes we'll go out when we finish another project after lunch.

After lunch came and went. The sun was starting to shine, so I wanted them to have a little time outside before it melted and PE, because then it would be time to go home...so we bundled up and were ready to go out. We were off to make a snowmunchkin! Six munchkins brought gloves and 4 didn't...hmmm???... ~Only the 6 who have gloves will help roll the snow and you 4 will help me with the things we need for our snowmunchkin. We tip toed out the doors to our spot in front of our class. Luckily one little girl understood how to roll the little ball of snow Mr. Blue Shoes did on the ground in order to make it bigger and bigger. The other little gloved munchkins followed her lead and did the same. I stacked up the body parts when they were done and my other little helpers helped put him together. ~Wait....hmm...something doesn't look right??? What's missing?? ...~Ahhhhhhh!!! We forgot the nose!!! One little munchkin volunteered to run back to the class and find something. ~Yeah right...knowing my luck if I let him do that, he'll run like a wild wet animal down the hallway and our cover is blown! haha!!! ~That's ok, let's see if we can find something out here. There was nothing!!! Not even a little rock! We decided to leave him without a nose. ~What do we name our snowmunchkin? Silence... Finally a little munchkin said, ~How about Mr. NoNo!? hmm... ~Why Mr. NoNo?...~Because he has NO NOse!! Wow...good idea! ~Ok, that's his name, Mr. NoNo! ~Yay!!!

In we went after our little snowmunchkin (Mr. NoNo) was done. Mission accomplished! The day went by so fast but we had such a great time! The next 13 days are going to fly by, then Christmas break!

Stay tuned for more adventures in Munchkinville!!!
XOXO's

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!!!

Yay! Yippie! Woohoo!! It snowed today at school!!

What a wonderful week off! I took so many things home for me to do during my time off...well, I did NOTHING for work!! Heehee! It was such a great week off but I was ready to see my little munchkins! Just a week off and they looked like they grew taller.

The munchkins were either frozen, full still from Thanksgiving, sleepy, or they matured just a little bit over the break because they were really quiet and really well behaved! Wow! It was nice whatever the reason may have been. We had rainy day schedule which means they stay inside ALL day! They stay in for lunch and they stay in for PE...no running off the wiggle worms today! To my surprise they were really, really, good and they worked so well and quietly!!! Crossing my fingers they continue this behavior but I may have just jinxed my unrealistic dream!

It rained most of the morning and it was cold outside but our oven classroom was pretty warm and toasty. I was glad to see parents dressed their munchkins in many layers and with big jackets and not only with itty bitty sweaters . Some came wrapped like little presents! haha They love, love, their gloves, scarves, and hats! I wouldn't doubt it if they sleep in them too! One just did not want to remove his gloves while he worked and had the hardest time doing anything with them on. ~Take your gloves off and put them in your backpack please. This was said more than once! He would take them off and then poof! they magically reappeared on his hands again!

From our window we watched the rain turn into little snowflakes then into large snowflakes. They were so excited...~Ooooh, Ahhhh! This turned into a quick, impromptu Science lesson. Those are usually the best lessons ever! They were dying to go out in the snow and so was I! Heehee!! It was lunch time or in my eyes brunch.. 11:00am is not breakfast nor lunch but brunch...I promised them that if there was snow still after lunch we would go out to take some pictures. ~Yay! Can we have a snowball fight too?? To their disappointment there wasn't that much snow yet on the ground after lunch but they still wanted to go out. I don't blame them I did too!!! A desert covered in snow is a beautiful thing and a rare thing to see! I had them put on every article of clothing they brought and some of them could barely walk or look around in their huge coats and jackets! A few looked like "Ralphie" from the movie Christmas Story...I thought they would tip over! haha! We were going to be sneaky and sneak outside...eek! ~Shhhh!!! Tip toe! They were cute tip toeing down the hall and out the door, not realizing no one was even remotely near our hallway or that anyone would even miss us for a quick 5-10 minutes!


We walked out to the blacktop and they saw their play area dusted in snow...~Woah!! Ooooh! Can we play on it! ...~No, your tooshies will be soaking wet and mommy wouldn't be too happy.

We walked to the front part of the school to take some quick pictures. ~Can we make a snowman? I would have said yes to that but there wasn't enough snow for a snowman then I hear...~How about a snow angel??? Hmm....should I let them or not? First I had to ask who knew what a snow angel was and only a few knew. Out of those few I picked one who looked pretty bundled and her jacket was long enough to cover her tooshie! The little ones who never saw a snow angel were dying to make one! I came this close to letting them all plop on the ground and flap away but I knew their little backsides would be soaked and they would freeze their little nalgitas (tooshies!) I was so tempted to let them but even though they were bundled up, their little bottoms would get wet...darn! ~Boo!... party pooper teacher is probably what they were thinking! haha! I told them they could make all the snow angels they wanted if it snowed more at home tonight. Surprisingly I didn't get a fight on that...just ~Ok! I tell you they were like different little munchkins today but in a good way!!!


We did our snow dance for more snow and I think it worked! Tomorrow the start of school has already been officially delayed for 2 hours...Yay!! That might mean no munchkins show up or maybe 10! Woohoo!! It happened I think 3 years ago and we had only 10 munchkins show up and had a blast!!! So I'll be doing my own snow dance tonight and saying my prayers for lots of snow! It is such a beautiful sight and gives you a wonderful feeling inside or was that lunch...heehee It really was a great experience for these little munchkins and a wonderful start to the beautiful holiday season!
Stay tuned for our snow filled adventure tomorrow!!!
XOXO's