sunday's "so they said" on monday...again!

today was my first official day of thanksgiving break

and I've been enjoying my time off already

yesterday morning the husband and I went for a little walk...

to the doughnut shop!

not a bad start to the day

we also visited our favorite antique mall

where I found some pyrex treasures I'll be sharing soon!

we ended the day by strolling the mall

and getting some coffee, so not a bad end to sunday either 

This week was pretty fun with my kids.  When doing a pre-activity with them to teach them the frustrations the writers of the Constitution had while drafting, I was called a name that I will use as this week's "so they said".   Instead of jumping right into the Constitution we spent the first part of our day trying to vote on a Pandora station to listen to in class for the day.  We went through the formal process of voting, but what they did not know is that I rigged the game so that they would never reach the nine votes they needed to reach a consensus!    After several proposals and the equal amount of rejections (and the tensions & frustration level highly elevated!)  we reflected on the activity where I was called...

"an evil genius"

Well, thank you.  I take that as a compliment.  

I also had one student, who I may let you know has been "identified" with oh so many "labels" tell me...

"so you just spent more than half of this class period making a point?"

Yes.  That is exactly right.  And I don't feel bad about it, not one bit!

To my teacher friends out there - enjoy our first, very well-deserved, break!