!Feliz Navidad!

School was a trip today... in a really good way.

My Spanish 3 students are currently working on demonstrative adjectives and pronouns (aka "this, that, these, those") in Spanish. I placed three gift-wrapped boxes in the room and asked three volunteers to choose from this box, that box, or that box way over those.

I left the contents of the box a mystery. They could be empty, contain a million dollar, or a barbie. Who knew?

The first volunteer got an expired Spangles coupon and a sucker.

The second received a beautifully empty used picture frame.

The third - oh the third - received the best gift of all:

A two-foot tall fiberoptic Christmas tree complete with ornaments.

Oh yeah. She bragged about it the rest of the day.

In my Spanish 4 class I gave the students the chance to tell their teacher what to do for once! They were working on how to form commands in Spanish, so I decided to have some fun. Each student wrote two commands and threw them into "The Bossy Box." If the command was completely correct, I had to do what it said. If it was incorrect in any way, they had to do what it said.

Needless to say, I embarrassed myself a few times. I combed a student's hair, sang a riveting rendition of "Man in the Mirror," and ran around the room yelling, "I'm not intelligent."

I thought that was fun. But what was more fun was watching my students do the things that they thought I was going to have to do.

One girl has to bake me a fresh batch of cookies.

Another will speak in a southern accent the entire class period.

One of the fellas had to admit that he secretly loved K-State, which made him visibly sick. (ha!)

One student will perform "Part of Your World," from The Little Mermaid to begin class tomorrow.

I can't wait to eat my cookies, call on the Texan all class period for answers, and be serenaded by the sounds of The Little Mermaid.

Tomorrow is looking very, very bright.

Peace, Love, and Adventure, ya'll.

Seth