This Kid

This is Ice.  Ice is one of my Grade 7 students this year who is in my art class and is also in my homeroom class every day.  He is one of those kids that is just always happy, always full of energy and fun.  He is kind to his peers and a great student.  And he makes me smile every day.  He is always up for an adventure, always willing to speak his mind, have fun, and bring life to the classroom.  I am so thankful I get to hang out with him this year.

As you can probably tell from the pictures, Ice is full of energy... and he's super small for his age.   One of his trademarks is getting to every class first - before all the other twenty-two Grade 7 students.  When we meet for flag in the morning he is always there.  And at the end of the day when it's time for homeroom, he is always the first in my classroom - usually by 3 minutes!  Some of the other boys try to beat him but I don't think he has lost once.  Eventually he started playing a trick on them and hiding when he came into my classroom so that when the other boys arrived they thought they had beat him and got all excited... and then Ice popped out of some hiding place to their great disappointment.  Almost every day in homeroom he plays this game - camouflaging himself in a heap of smocks, or curling up in a cabinet.  He has even contemplated hiding in the trash can and asked me to clear off shelves in advance for him to hid in the next day.  It's so funny to see this routine every day - him running in and hiding, the other boys coming in, at first in triumph, but now they know better and just try to figure out where he is that day.  It's truly the little things in life like this that put a smile on my face every day and I'm grateful for Ice and his fun antics :)