Telephone game

We played a fun activity with the grade 5/6 class today. We can do such high-concept/high-prep games when there are only four students in the class and two teachers. We spent previous weeks' classes building up vocabulary and practicing sentence structures and today we used them in a telephone skit. It was fun because the teacher built a string and tin can system throughout the classroom. The kids were thrilled and it was a good illustration at how high a level the kids are at. There's lots of trouble to get into when such a novelty is strung around the classroom. I have no idea why, but something was funny enough to one of the grade fives for him to fall off his chair. I call the activity a qualified success.

Also, in the pass thirty minutes a small storm cloud passed over and blunted the otherwise fine day. For a while, it was a strange mixture of the biggest snowflakes I have every seen, really like small loose-packed snowballs when they hit you, and rain. Not a good combination either. Luckily it's staying above zero as I will have to spend the afternoon outside tomorrow.