Rainy Days are Quiet Days

Something about the rain makes our 5th grade students very, and I mean VERY quiet. As I look around the room they are all working quietly. Even when they are assigned a partner or a group to work with, they are hesitant to talk.

I don't know if it is that they are just so upset about not having recess that they are too depressed to utter a single word. Or maybe they are so distracted from the vision of Mr. I soaking wet from this morning they can't form any other thoughts. It might possibly be the soothing sound of the rain calms their sweet little spirits so much they wouldn't dare utter a word.

Whatever it is, it has certainly made the classroom eerily silent.

The culprit of our quiet day: