Love it when things go right!

When returning to school on an unexpected day, its pretty much a guarantee that students (and sometimes teachers) will forget what day it is, and what goes on that day. In my case, it tends to be students forgetting their instruments. While I easily had a handful of students in each class forget their instruments yesterday, my highlight of the day was then I had a class of 5th graders (yes 5th graders, the newest to the program) ALL had their instruments!! Granted it's a small class, but I'll take it!! It was better than one of my classes of 8th graders I had in the morning! They also came back with a fairly good memory of everything we had been working on, an we were able to progress past the review I had planned! I will admit, I look forward to that group most of the time because they are so excited to learn in my room each day!