"Hanging Around" with Mrs. Anderson

This past Friday, our student body witnessed a historic event. For the first time ever, we hung a teacher from the wall with duct tape! Our PE Teacher, Mrs. Anderson, promised us at the beginning of February that she would "do something CRAZY" if we met our goal of $1800 for Jump Rope for Heart. She was true to her word! She announced on Wednesday morning that not only had we met our goal, but we had surpassed it, raising over $2100!!

Here are some pictures of this special day!

This first picture shows Mrs. Anderson waiting to begin speaking to all the third, fourth, and fifth grade students. You can see all the tape strips on the wall, just waiting to be used.

Here she is talking to all of us. You can see a number hanging from the wall...that's how much money our school raised for the American Heart Association! We should be so proud of ourselves. And one of our own classmates, Angela, was the student who raised the most money!

This next picture shows Mrs. Anderson with all the tape on her. It took quite a while for the students and teachers to wrap her with tape...probably about 15-20 minutes. This is just before the stool was pulled from under her feet.

And here she is, just "hanging" out with us! Mrs. Anderson smiled and laughed the whole time. She sure is a good sport!

We were lucky to get to see this, since it did not work out the first time. When Mrs. Anderson tried to get taped for the Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd, she was not able to stay stuck to the wall. She told me later that she timed it, and she was stuck to the wall for 13 minutes!

What did you think about this! Let's hear your thoughts on taping a teacher to the wall. Was that a good motivator to help raise money for a good cause?

It's been "SNOW" much fun!

Well, boys and girls, can you believe how much snow we have gotten this school year? I cannot remember this much snow in our town since I moved here, and that was back in 2004. We had 5-6 inches just before Christmas break which allowed us to go home two hours early. Some of that snow was still on the ground a week later, or longer. Now we have just experienced another 8-9 inches, and this is our 3rd day out of school.

I enjoyed watching the snow fall on Friday night and Saturday. I tried to take my son Quinn out to play on Saturday but the snow was up to his knees and he couldn't walk in it. On Sunday when I took him out to play, he said "OH, Wow!", when he saw all the snow.

My best snow memory happened when I was in 4th grade. That year was 1988 and my dad said we got about 18 inches of snow over several days. School was out for over a week. I lived out in the country and on one side of our street was a strip of pine trees that went all the way down the street. Beyond the trees was a big field, which was really part of a local baseball field. Behind 2nd base and center field, the land sloped downward, creating a wonderful sledding hill. My dad, my cousin Jeff and I went sledding several days. The snow was so high (and I was so short) that my dad or Jeff (who was in high school) had to carry me up the hill. We would slide down and sometimes crash into piles of snow. Sometimes we would end up all the way to the trees. I only wish I had pictures of this day...I only have the pictures in my head.

So now I would like to know....what is your best snow memory? It can be from this recent snow, or it could be from a while back. I know some of you have only seen snow once or twice in your whole life. I want to hear about a snow day memory that you will remember when you are my age!