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Yesterday was my first visit to elementary school in a month.  I forgot how much I missed those kids.  You know, in spite of the first graders climbing all over me and stealing my glasses.

Some highlights of the day that had everyone in stitches:

• At lunch, I mimed with several of the 5th grade students using a piece of invisible "thread".  First it was a rubber band, then a lasso, then a fishing line (its hook got stuck in someone's mouth), and then we blew it up into a beach ball and smacked it around the room.
• After lunch I introduced a "baseball" game to the 6th graders.  Quite simple, really, two people from each team compete against each other to say the word from a card.  If the batting team shouts it out first a base gets taken, and if the "catcher" wins the batter is out, and in either case two new challengers come up next.  If both said the word at the same time, it counted as a foul ball and I held up another card.  One pair went for about 10 pitches before someone won.