A May day at school

This is testing week. I hate the tests. They are passed down by the state as instruments of torture, so the students say. Nevertheless, we test! But this afternoon, testing is over. And it is 80 degrees outside, with sunshine. So in my class, we take a break. We go outside and the students sit and listen to me read. We are reading a book by James Patterson, called Maximum Ride. They are enjoying it and so am I! When I finish, I tell them they have 15 minutes free......outside. Mind you, these are 7th graders, 12-14 years old. I don't know what I expected, but love what I saw happening before my unbelieving eyes. Games of tag and Marco Polo broke out all around me. As the boys ran, they had to constantly pull up their saggy pants with one hand. I laughed out loud at that. The beautiful freedom came to a close with a student coming toward me with a dandelion saying "Matt had a baby and its head popped off!" If you didn't do that as a child you were missing out!