The eighteen days between Thanksgiving Break and Christmas Vacation carry both advantages and challenges. On the one hand, the light is very much at the end of the tunnel; you have a real vacation coming soon. On the other hand, the climate is as painful as April. We're on a winter schedule, but we're dealing with the remnants of a nasty ice storm.
The forecast for the next few days promises some snow, but the ice was brutal, and followed by a day too warm for December.
Schools on semester systems have finals now, but for us, this is a quick start into the winter trimester. There will be grades entered, but only as early indicators of the final grades that are sent in March.
As the crowd enters the Meeting House for this morning's assembly, Chris hands out canisters of chocolate butter crunch to his favorites.
A new take on Saint Nicholas....
Up in a Spanish 2 class, students deliver a puppet theater holiday-inspired show. The audience is off to the right.
Tech Decks, or finger boards, are miniature skateboards and accessories that were introduced in the late 1970s, I am led to believe, although I somehow missed the phenomenon. Later, they became a rage, I guess, and certain quadrants of the community are dedicating Tuesday lunches to this unique, cultish activity.
Plastic jumps, bars, steps and embankments enable players to mimic skateboard stunts and tricks.
