Yes, I work in the only county in south GA that wasn't closed due to Tropical Storm Fay :)

I was furious about this decision! Haha!!! I arrived at school all huffy and late (after 7am) compared to my normal arrival time. We were allowed to wear jeans with whatever shirt we wanted and I chose a TC tshirt :) When we got to school I found out that we had an early release day...better than nothing. But I still didn't get home until 2 and I was soaked from the bus line. But it sure felt good to take a Friday afternoon nap while it poured outside. I'll admit the wind was scary (my umbrella almost snapped in half)!

When I finally got over having a bad attitude, I actually had a really good day with my students. They were all there...even the sick ones. I was sick too, my throat hurt so bad! We did a lot of Fun Friday activities and I got all of the weekly work sent home and my newsletter was complete (I didn't write my newsletter until the mroning b/c I didn't want to do it if school was out).

We talked about the TS and I brought in some articles that I cut out of the newspaper with pictures of what the storm was doing. We looked out the window and watched the clouds! We read the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom earlier in the week, so we made a coconut tree snack. And I cracked open two coconuts with a hammer. I actually had an audience. I was nervous to do it because I've never cracked one open before..well one of our speech teachers came in to get one of my students and ended up staying and watching..haha!! One had milk in it and the other didn't. We made a big chart and used descriptive words to describe how the coconut looked, felt, smelled, sounded, and tasted. FUN!

Since we couldn't go out to PE they set up a parachute in one of the front hallways! I haven't played with one of those since elementary school and I remember that it was my favorite. It slowly came back to me and Ms. Derikia and we raised it up, ran under it, sat under it, walked different ways with it, put a ball on top of it, and just went crazy!! Highlight of my day!

The other thing that I love about Hand-In-Hand is that every teacher owns a pair of rainboots. It is a sight to see...we have plain,polka dot, plaid, and animal print out there on the bus line! Everyone also own awesome raincoats. We have all learned from experience and that bus line is HIGH and rain blows right under it! So we finally got all of our busses home and then had to stay up front until car riders left. Then Jeanna ordered us to go home and rest this weekend.