Doing the Snow Dance
We have not had one snow day yet this winter and our kids are beginning to feel a little shafted. A storm is scheduled to come in over night and the weatherman just said that he predicts a 90% chance of school being canceled.
My kids are so determined to get a snow day out of this, they have employed some pretty common superstitions:
- They all have their jammies on backwards
- They flushed ice cubes down the toilet
- They are sleeping with spoons under their pillows
- And they did a snow dance in front of the fireplace
Will they be successful? What snow day techniques have you heard of or have your kids put into action?
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5 opinions for Doing the Snow Dance
bill
Feb 22, 2008 at 4:21 am
Heck with that mysticism — we’re on our FOURTH without even trying! Send them our way, they can take my daughter’s place..
char
Feb 22, 2008 at 10:22 am
Bill - obviously it didn’t work as advertised. We got the day off school for ice that has now turned to rain. Blech.
Christine
Feb 22, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Don’t tell you kids, but my kids have had 11 snow days this year. It’s been insane. At a parent meeting last night the counselor joked that they will be in school until July 4th and they won’t have the usual “forgetting what they learned last year” syndrome because they’ll be making up snow days all summer.
Karen @ A Healthy Balance
Feb 24, 2008 at 12:11 pm
The schools here have only had 1 snow day. They had to make it up on a holiday though. I thought they had some days built in to the schedule, but I guess not.
kar
Mar 6, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Start by saying: It’s snowing, its snowing, it’s snowing!! Do the rain/snow motion with your hands
Make the motion a little shorter, as if to indicate that it is piling up and say: it’s piling up, it’s piling up
Sway your arms like they are blowing in the wind and say: “It’s windy, we’re blowing away!
Slide on the floor like it’s ice and say: “it’s slippery”
Make like you are driving a car and say: “and your driving in your car, and you get stuck!”
say: “so you get out of your car, and make a snow angel!”
Get on the floor and make a snow angel
Say: “there is no school tomorrow!”
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