So I Was Just Thinking

Prettige Feestdagen! We received a great Sinterklaas gift today. I am glad when we woke up this morning we found this instead of finding that Zwart Piet had carried us off. Now to work on being good for next year. If last year's winter is any indication, I am sure I will be tired of this white stuff after a while, but coming from Texas where this would have delayed school for two hours, it is quite a novelty. At least it gave me something to post for December Daily today. So to answer iHanna's question on my calendar journal post: Yes, there will be snow in December! Haha.

So we had our first snow of 2010, probably the last snow of winter 09/10. As most of you know, Central Texans do not really get to see snow that often. When it does snow, it isn't snow at all, but sleet that hits the ground and melts only to freeze over night and cause hazardous road conditions over bridges and such. We had school today because it didn't start snowing until 7 or 8 o'clock. At 10 o'clock the Fort Hood powers that be decided that all soldiers should be released by 10:30 so the district started making automated phone calls and emails to parents asking them to please come pick up their children. Well, at blog post time, I still have three here. We have been building geometric shapes with magnets, studying the effects of gravity (Jenga) and stretching our brains (Five Senses Trivial Pursuit) just to pass the time. Wouldn't it be nice if there were no state tests and we could spend our time learning about these things this way all of the time. I think the...

We actually have real snow falling from the sky. Granted the snow melts the moment it hits the ground, but it is snow nonetheless. The wonderful thing is to see how the students from Caribbean are enjoying seeing snow for the first time. It made for a perfect Daily #3. Oh, to have that much joy!