The parents decided to trek in snow to school on this lovely Saturday. Which meant my kids and many of my students saw snow for the first time!

The boys wore their boots and mittens.

They threw snowballs.

They tasted the snow.

Joe made them a mini snowman.

When the bigger kids came and they headed to the playground Paul looked like this:

All the while, I taught poetry (this Saturday and last)

at an event my school calls the Literacy Conference, which we have been doing for the last three years.