Tuesday, December 21, 2004

Make-Up Days Are Here!!!

Our "Hurricane Ivan" make up days are here as I type. Yesterday, today and tomorrow are 3 of the 4 days that we have to make up from our days off in September. It has been real tough getting up this week for work. And it's an even tougher job to keep these children on task, when they are so excited about Christmas coming.

Today, in the other fourth grade class, they had "Christmas Around the World." We are a very diverse school, and all the children in that homeroom brought in food from their country. It was so nice! I ate things that I had never heard of! We had food from Pakistan, Russia, China, Honduras, Italy, France, Greece, and of course good old Creole food from right here in New Orleans! The newspaper even came out to report on it and it should be featured in Sunday's edition. We ate like kings and queens today! Mrs. Dowty did a fantastic job organizing it. All of the children really enjoyed themselves. They actually ate everything and wrote comments on how each item tasted to them. This was a great way to introduce new food items and different cultures to all of us! You don't realize how differently every family eats until you experience something like this. I commend Mrs. Dowty's homeroom for a wonderful luncheon!!

Happy Holidays to everyone!

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