It seemed that we were on Christmas break forever! I behaved myself and didn't do any school work for the first 2 weeks. I was busy making Christmas cookies and ginger bread houses that the kids make and Mommy eats!
Each break I have a reading contest with the class to see "Who can read more than Mrs. Ardill?" This break I had 2 students that read more than 5,000 pages and they can only read chapter books. I managed to read about 2,000 pages.
We spent the first hour hearing "briefly" how everyone spent their break. As other children spoke, they all seemed to think of another important thing they forgot to tell us. I had them talk to their neighbor and then the neighbor reported what was forgotten. That seemed to appease the ones who were dying to tell me more. I had to work hard on classroom management because they were all so excited to be back.
