As we create our procedures for the new year that will help us to use our time wisely, we always discuss interruptions. We agree that we will do our best to keep working even when unexpected distractions parade in front of us, such as cars going by the windows, people traveling through our room for various reasons, and thumpings or hee-haws from another room’s learning adventures.
We always leave ourselves an out for the occasional serendipitous opportunity though. One year we decided that we would remain engaged unless a helicopter landed on the lawn outside our window. We kept our agreement until the day someone drove around the driveway right past our windows pulling a lawn cart with a miniature donkey in it. We cracked up over that one until the last day of school!
So this year after we decided that the parade of dump trucks hauling fill to repair the flood damage on Route 4, chipmunks in our feeder, and random interruptions would not keep us from working, guess what the window seat writers spotted?
We are indeed tenaciously engaged learners, but life is too short not to stop and rejoice in hot air balloons that pass right over your school, the first riotous snowflakes of the season, and . . . . . .
So this afternoon, an adventurous moose took a walk up Route 4 right past the school and up the hill! How I longed for a moose picture to piggyback on the hot air balloon pictures, but no. Makes you wonder what will go by tomorrow though, doesn’t it?
The hot air balloons are beautiful and numerous in this part of VT and NH. We even followed one to the Dartmouth Green last week. I think you will have many opportunities to be distracted by them this year!