Sing-a-long Blizzards

Yesterday was my first Holiday Sing-a-long. This is a big event at my school each year. Each grade level in the school prepares two songs that they will sing for the rest of the school. We sit in a really big circle around the gym and take turns singing. At the end, Santa comes to visit, and the principal read them a story in his pajamas because they had done so well for their fundraiser.
Well, as much fun as this sounds, it made me a little nervous. That was mostly because I had to have both of my kindergarten classes come in the morning at the same time. Check out those ratios--- 46 five year olds: 1 teacher. Luckily, I was able to get a couple of parent volunteers to help out, but even so, that's a lot of five year olds to fit into my classroom.
So, the singing went great, even though a few of my children chose to wear their reindeer antlers upside down on their heads like a pair of construction paper side burns. I think that made it all the more endearing.
The best part of the whole program though definitely had to be the bathroom breaks. You see, they had our class in the corner of the gym where the only possible way to easily exit would be through the door leading to the outside. That's fine most of the time. Only yesterday, we just happened to be having blizzard like conditions out there, with wind blowing the snow into big drifts and flying it in your face and such. So, imagine a five year old and his teacher hopping through snow drifts just to go to the bathroom. One little boy asked me, "Why is there a blizzard out here Miss Parrish?" So I told him, "Well, that's what happens when you have to go to the bathroom during the holiday sing-a-long. Sometimes you have to run through a blizzard."
Luckily, I only did this twice. After that, I told any child that had to go to the bathroom, "Yes, you may go, but only if you're willing to run through a blizzard to get there." "Oh, you can hold it?" "Great!"