Sweet Snow Days
Posted by Amy on 04 Feb 2009 | Posted in: Holiday and Seasonal, Inspiration and Motivation, Life After School
Ah, the unexpected day off! These are the days that students live for. As a teacher I secretly loved snow days too. Even though it meant reworking the weekly lesson plans and returning to overexcited students, I enjoyed having that one treasured day to do whatever I wanted. The chance to sleep in, the opportunity to catch up on daytime TV, or (dare I say it) the chance to clean the house in solitude–it felt amazing!
Please tell me that I am not alone! Surely there are other snow-day lovers out there! Tell me how you like to spend an unexpected day off from school. Or has it been so long since you’ve had one that you don’t remember?
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I LOVE ALL DAYS WHEN THERE IS SNOW AND I CANT GO TO SCHOOL! HAHAHA JUST KIDDING, WELL ITS TRUE, BUT I LOVE MY CLASS THEY ARE A GREAT LEARNING BUNCH.I TEACH 5TH GRADE AND THEY, EXCEPT FOR ONE ARE ALL HARD WORKING.
We had our first school day of snow yesterday, and yes, we had school! It was a little nerving getting there, but once we were settled, we incorporated the whole day’s lessons centered around snow. I had my little ones (first/second grade) create “snow day” murals with descriptive sentences, we made snowpeople, using blue(boys) and pink(girls),we practiced Math strategies using cotton balls, we threw cotton balls up into the air to make a pretend snow in the classroom, and we read “Snowy Day” and ventured outside to make tracks in the snow. Most teachers only had a fraction of their class to show for school, but I had 17 out of 20 to come. I love it when my students even love to come to school on a snowy day! It’s reminds me of the reasons I chose to be a teacher!
Snow Days!! What are those?? I live in Yuma Arizona where it had already been above 80 degrees and we are only in February. Our summers are hot (120s or higher) so not we have not be able to experience a snow day and we do not get to stay home just because it reaches record heat days. SO ENJOY THEM!!
I love snow days. We have had two so far and I agree, its better to know the night before. I enjoy cooking, reading, never doing schoolwork and just being. We had one yesterday and today a funeral day so its been nice. Any more this year and we will have to make them up.
I got the opportunity to have one of your fabulous books on my hands and I got fascinated. I am a teacher from Peru, and I would like to get some books, but how can I get them? Right now, I am working on the ships as a youth staff.
Thanks
we NEVER get a snow day..The Mayor says if he can get to work, the teachers and kids should..Of course, he SAYS he takes the subway..Those of us who do not live in a borough with adequate public transportation have a heck of a time of it. Many of us work in a different borough from which we live. Think the last snow day was about 5 years ago right after a holiday week off…so it was easier to keep the schools closed. It had snowed 18 inches.so for those of you who have snow days—-ENJOY!
I hear you! I love snow days. We don’t have many of them here in North Carolina, but when we do, its my day to cook meals for the week, clean my home and organize things for my daycare kids. I also get in some much needed ‘me’ time!
YEA FOR SNOW DAYS!!! So far we’ve had three (although one was actually an Ice Day and two were Cold Days). So far we won’t have to make them up so that makes it even better! Finding out the night before is the best because then I can sleep in!
I am like a kid on snow days. The only bad part is making them up. I take time on snow days to catch up on things I don’t normally have time to do, or just sit and veg out on the couch.
I love snow days too. Sorry to say that we haven’t had any this year so far. We have days built into our calendar so that we don’t have to make anything up. I wonder if they’ll let school out early in May if we don’t use any?!?
Hooray for Snow Days!! This year we’ve even had COLD days when it didn’t get warmer than -15! I like them when we know about it the night before. When I learn about it in the morning, why is it that I sit glued to the TV watching the running scroll of closings, even when I know we’re on it???
I like to bake on snow days. I wish I liked to clean. Of course I like to watch the plows go by.
I do like having the snow days to do what I want to do. It does give the children the chance to play outdoors which we are not allowing them to get outside. But having all these snowdays this winter has put our school going almost to the end of June.