It's fun to stay at the Y-M-C-A

The YMCA has a great program in Richmond. Second graders go to the Y once a week for 7 weeks for swimming lessons and they absolutely love it. After today's swim, one kid quipped, "I want tomorrow to be Wednesday again."

So precious.

Nothing like a day at school spent in our pajamas......

update

Our hamster's name has been changed from Albert Einstein to Dracula.

Our reasons are many, but I'll let the kids write stories about the biting incident. My thumb hurts too much to type.

Hot Dog!

April kicks off National Poetry Month, so here's the first one my class penned together. I'm pretty impressed with them.

ODE TO THE HOT DOG

You are summer in my mouth.
You are tasty like pepperoni pizza.
I drizzle mustard
---yellow as the sun---
and ketchup
---red as a heart---
on your lovely, pink skin.

The bun is your shelter
but it doesn't keep you safe
from my mouth.