Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!

IT SNOWED IN HOUSTON, TEXAS TODAY!!! Yes it's true, Houston, Texas, the hottest, muggiest, most gross weather having city in America, got snow ALL day long today. On Monday when the weather reports about Houston getting snow came out, I was thinking "Yeah, right- it never snows in Longview and Houston is WAY hotter!". The kids in my class kept assuring me that "On/In/At Friday it's going to snow!" Well today as we were doing morning circle and calendar, I looked outside and it was actually snowing! I could not believe my eyes. It was hard to see but the kids were so excited anyway. Since many of them had never seen snow before I decided that I would take it upon myself to let them go on a "mini-field trip" outside to play in the snow. So I bundled them up and instructed them that they could do whatever they wanted except scream and that if they screamed we would have to go inside immediately. Of course as soon as a snowflake hit their skin they all started screaming with excitement and I had to take them inside, but they really liked it. Later during the day when it started really coming down I took them out again and they really got to play in it and I didn't have to worry about them screaming because there were 3 other classes full of screaming kids outside too. The day was pretty chaotic with parents coming to pick their kids up early for fear that the roads would get too bad, but other than that it was a great Friday! Here are some pics of the kiddos in the snow while we were loading the buses and also one of Riley in the frosty grass!