I recently blogged about missing my mountains in the fall. To continue in a similar strain, I also really miss the Allardt, Tennessee Annual Pumpkin Festival. This is a lifelong tradition for me, and this year marks the fifth year I have been unable to attend. This tiny festival in an even tinnier town is the epitome of a small town celebration complete with parade, beauty queens, car show, local crafts, home cooked food, a talent show, and face painting. As the name suggests, the main event of the Pumpkin Festival is the pumpkin weigh in. This year's winner:
New Record weighing in at
1,266.1 pounds
To read more about this delightful festival visit their website.
And on a different note; Remember this?
I showed up at work today in a not so uncommon situation of having no lesson planned and about 20 minutes to get one planned if I don't want to wing it with a class full of sometimes difficult 6th graders (definitely don't want that to happen). I went to the library to return some books I had borrowed for last week's lessons. Lo and behold, I spotted four of these books sitting on the shelf, and it was all gravy from there. I wanted to work haikus into my lessons this week, and seeing this book of poetry helped everything fall into place for a week devoted to poetry. I was very happy with the way that worked out, and the kids were pretty happy too (they don't know we're going to be focusing on poetry all week yet). However, I'm going to look at it in an interesting way by pulling in music, rap, presentation style, and a little bit of writing of course.
And to end this post here are some words of wisdom from the great Shel Silverstein:
PUT SOMETHING IN
Draw a crazy picture,
Write a nutty poem,
Sing a mumble-grumble song,
Whistle through your comb.
Do a loony-goony dance
'Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
That ain't been there before.
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