Fun Friday And Natural Resources

We earned Fun Friday this past week, a rare event at the OK Corral.  Throughout the week, as we travel to lunch and various Fine Arts special classes, we strive to get compliments from those we pass.  Each compliment is one letter as we work to spell ‘Fun Friday.’  My class is actually pretty good this year, it’s just that we have a few wigglers in the bunch, including Tiny Dancer, who rather prances as she perambulates.

I was glad that we earned it this week, and if the truth were told, it could be that I fudged it a little bit, allowing points earned last week to be carried over, which is against the (my) rules.  As a culmination to our study of Natural Resources, we made, and ate, dirt.

‘Dirt’ is made by topping individually packaged vanilla pudding with chocolate sandwich cookies that have been ground up so that it resembles, well, dirt.  Each student shovels his or her own dirt into their ‘flower pot.’

My favorite part is when I ask each one, “Would you care for a worm in your dirt?”  Inevitably they giggle and nod excitedly.  When everyone had been served, we enjoyed our dirt.

We had one casualty.  It seems that one of my friends cut her tongue while licking the pudding container.  “It tastes like pennies,” she remarked.  My thoughts were: It’s weird, that’s how they describe the taste of blood in all the books, and, How do you know what pennies taste like?

Beyond that one malfunction, however, Fun Friday was a huge hit and everyone seemed to enjoy their dirt.

Next Fun Friday idea: Backwards Day.