Rainy Days & Recess

Yes, it rained again here in Norcal. I definitely am rusting. Furthermore, my 4th graders are not coping well with their forced inside play for recess and PE. They are getting just a tad squirrely to put it politely. In an attempt to boost their spirits and turn their brains back to learning, I introduced Tall Tales and how to recognize them, tell them, and write them. The fun part was listening to Robin Williams narrate a Pecos Bill book. I now have a classroom of budding tall tale authors. Sheesh, that was close, I almost had to build an ark. Next I divided the class in teams for my spring time class activity of Baseball Trivia. It's a classroom behavior modification teaching game I've developed that is a lot of fun and involves a lot of hands learning from all my students and Kingsize candy bars on my part for the winning team. They were happy. Whew, I dodged one more rainy day bullet. Now what shall I do for tomorrow? I wonder if I have any more tricks up my sleeve. I'll need them, because the tv weather guy says we are going to have 10 more days of RAIN!!!!! Rusting, rusting, rusting.....