February was full of sports for Lizzy and myself. On this particular day I went with one of my schools to play against the elementary school teachers and some of the older students. My middle schoolers and I ended up tying in the final minutes 2-2 and then we went into penalty kicks. We barely squeaked by and it was the first time in 5 years that the Middle School defeated the Elementary School teachers. My boys were all very excited and immediately started talking about wanting to go and play against other schools. Their field afforded excellent views of the area but became a dust bowl whenever there was wind, which was quite often.
The elementary aged kids were and always are very curious of everything I do. The first few times I went to their school (they share the building with us, they go from 8-12:30, we go from 1-5) the kids just stared at me, completely dumbfounded. Some walked up and touched my hands, others rubbed my arms asking why I had weird dots on my arms and why I had so much arm hair. On this day they were enthralled in the stretches I was doing in preparation of our game. At first they just watched but as soon as I invited them to participate they jumped at the opportunity.
This last photo is of my students at the middle school. The youngest students ended up beating the 5th and 6th graders and the older students and I beat the teachers team. It was a lot of fun.
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