It's Friday! It's Friday!

"It's Friday!  It's Friday!  Oh Yeah!  Oh Yeah!  

We're smart! We're strong!  We're coooool!" 

That's the cheer we do each and every Friday in our class...If at least 90% of our friends are dressed in school spirit wear of course - nothing comes for free.  Ha!

"Can we do the Friday cheer?", "Can we do the Friday cheer?"  

The kids beg and plead from the moment their little muddy feet hit the floor, but we keep them hanging just long enough to squeeze any last morsels of learning from our very long week before we give them the '5-6-7-8'.  For we know once the cheering begins...the learning might end.  But it's Friday, so a '5-6-7-8'!!  

What follows is a roomful of flailing jazz hands, marvelously loud cheers, choreographed hand motions and of course laughter...lots and lots of laughter.  It's Friday ya'll...something is in the air...the water...the food?  We don't know what it is, but Friday just brings out the funnies in all of us.   

We've learned as teachers, you cannot always fight the Friday Funnies...

They're fierce.  They spread like wildfire...AND they can take over your entire body in a single snort causing the victim to wiggle, giggle, and occasionally roll around uncontrollably on the floor until we can once again regain control of any crumbs of learning that might remain.  Yes, it's definitely Friday. 

We teachers have adopted an "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" attitude ~ minus the floor rolling, of course.

So, in honor of the Friday Funnies, we'd like to share a funny with you from our Message Center writing this week.  We were so impressed how our friends used those "Friendly Greetings" we provided to write to their friends.  This one caused us to snort out loud {not so pretty}, and it was all down hill from there!
 

 Dear Friend,

I like it when you are not so hyper.  

P.S.  You are very good at handball.

                         
                           Your Friend  

Next week, we think we'll be revisiting the concept of kindness and perhaps a lil' lesson on backhanded compliments.  

Just a thought...

We'd love to hear about your Friday Funnies!