Dear fellow bloggers, I have been absent for some days now. The thing is here there is rarely ever snow but these past few days the winter pressed so hard on us that schools are closed, children are out making snowballs and we teachers are drinking warm tea and enjoying ourselves as well :)))

Two days ago we came to school and snow started slowly falling. No panic, it seemed as if it was nothing when suddenly a blizzard came. My school has no central heating, every classroom has just a big stove on wood so it started to be quite cold in the big room. My fingertips turned numb, the wet sponge wasn´t my best friend and children started shivering a bit.

A glimpse on the snowflakes through the window "Wanna put on your jackets? It is starting to be cold." They didn´t complain. However it didn´t do much good, the stove is in the corner of the room, far away from the desks for the warmth to reach us "What do you think we go nearer to the stove?"

We took our chairs and formed a cosy circle around the hot brick "fire monster" and started reading. All the writing activities planned for that day were easily replaced with a story I found in the textbook. An old-fashioned atmosphere of storytelling and friends gathered around the fire reminded me of my childhood in girl scouts and camp, evenings with guitar and singing. My pupils were reading and listening, smiling, warm and cheerful they became very talkative and it turned out to be a wonderful idea to continue.

"Could we do this again Miss Ana, even when there is no snow?" They liked it, wonderful!

I think of organizing it in a Reading circuit and introducing it into my regular schedule. Sounds good? :)