Friday night: Teachers' extra duties/activities

On Friday night, the teachers put together a "lock-in" for the kids between the ages of 7 and 14. It was a fund raiser to help one of the juniors go to Australia in the summer for a cross-country thing. The kids all paid $10 to get in the door, which included a pop and a bag of popcorn. There were then several activities that were offered. The evening started out with a movie (at about 8.30), there were board games in the library and computer games in the computer room. After the movie there were carnival kind of games where the kids won all kinds of prizes. To round the night off, there was a limbo competition. At 10.30, all the kids went back to the library, to put their coats, boots and gloves back on and only cleanup remained behind...
History and English teacher making popcorn
High and middle school teachers manning the concession stand
It was an interesting example of what duties rural teachers do after normal school hours. Popcorn had to be made, the concession stand and the carnival games had to be manned, the floors vacuumed after the happening etc. I enjoyed helping out and seeing how much the kids enjoyed these fairly simple pleasures and just had a blast. It was like a great party!
Shedding layers in the library... Only one sweater and two pairs of gloves remained behind.