My Foam Finger.....

I have to be honest, I love a good pep rally, especially at a small school where everyone is involved. My school down here has roughly 650 students from JK-12th grade, of which 212 are in the Upper School (high school). Homecoming is this week and since we don't have a football program, soccer and field hockey games serve for our HC celebration.

It is our tradition to have the entire school meet in our big gym for a pep rally the day of/before our HC games (which this year will be on Saturday, sometimes they're on Friday). The little kids get so excited for this day because they get to be out of uniform and this year they were allowed to wear blue wigs to the rally. One of my boys even came to school with a foam finger that said "LCS #1! It was fantastic.

So as we're heading over to the gym, the kids are getting so excited.....they're starting to talk, they're getting a little nervous (because we've been talking about being loud and supporting the team) and we get caught in a line outside the gym....which adds to the building of excitement.....we finally file in and the music is loud, the pep club was going nuts....cheering, waving their flags/signs......two students are dressed up as a titan and an amazon (our mascots). It was glorious.

And my kids had huge smiles on their faces. They loved it! They cheered as loud as they could, they yelled, clapped and made their teacher proud. Even when they asked grade by grade who could cheer the loudest, the 4th grade were the winners!!!!

A glorious afternoon it was and my favorite part was my one student, with his retro Collegiate t-shirt and his little foam finger.

God bless.