Snow Days!

It's a great time to be a student AND teacher!   Last Saturday almost 9 inches of snow fell across our state and temps have been in the single digits!  Today was the first day since Saturday that the temp. has been above 26 degrees!  The kids (and teachers) have been out of school going on day 3 tomorrow.   Despite what people think, some teachers do work at home on these days though. It's a great time to catch up on what needs to be done at your leisure.  It's also a good time for recharging...yes, I know we just had Christmas vacation but was it really a vacation (you know the saying, "I need a vacation from the vacation."). So after one week back in the grove we are off for 3 days, working for 2 and then off again for a 3 day weekend.

Our snow days have been filled with football, food and fun!  Today was the first day it was really nice enough to get outside though.  Our son has been waiting for good packing snow to build his famous "perfect snowman", today was finally the day!

             

On Monday night we enjoyed "football food" and kinda watched the college game.  We really didn't have a preference about which team won; the ACC/SEC, Clemson or Alabama, but we do love a good excuse to fix yummy finger foods! I found a great recipe for homemade sriracha chicken tenders so we tried them out.  Mmmm...mmm good!!  For someone who is not a fan of hot (spicy) food, I loved them! Of course you have to make the delicious sour cream sauce to dip them in too.  Along with chicken tenders we had deer meat wrapped in bacon and shrimp on the grill. DELICIOUS! 

And secretly we're glad Clemson won the game!

I also spent time doing some work related things, grading papers and adding an item to TPT.  Click here to get your free copy of Counting on Neighbors (adding) and Goodbye Neighbors (subtracting) to use for math stations in your classroom.  It's a great fun way to reinforce the counting on  and counting back 1,2,3 strategies.

Alas, today is our last snow day and conditions don't look favorable for anymore snow anytime soon.  With a warm up today and temps in the 60's (only in VA can you go from 0 to 65 in the same week) we should be back to school tomorrow but today we'll enjoy!