Here's another to add to the list. It's worked all but one time since 2002:
Schedule a RIF distribution in December or January.
I had one scheduled Friday, but due to icy roads and freezing fog, our school
system was closed. We're gonna try it again tomorrow, if possible.
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From: Juliann Moskowitz <juliann14@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:55:34 -0500
Subject: [LM_NET] HIT: Snow day superstitions
Many thanks to the over 40 people who responded to my query about snow day
superstitions. I grouped the answers into two categories: 1)Activities to
bring on snow and 2) superstitions surrounding snow fall or snow days.
It was a lot of fun reading everyone's responses.The three most common
things done to bring on a snow day were: wearing PJ's inside-out and/or
backwards, putting spoons (or forks) under one's pillow and flushing ice
cubes down the toilet.
The responses follow:
Activities to bring on snow:
*Around here the superstition is to put your pjs on inside out and dance
around your living room the evening before you want to be a snow day.
*The night before a possible snow day, we used to chant:Give me an S, Give
me an N, Give me an O, Give me a W. What's it spell? SNOW DAY!
*My kids sleep with spoons under their pillows!
*A little boy told me last week to put ice cubes in the toilet if I wanted
it to snow!
*I heard it was wearing your pajamas backwards and then jumping into bed
backwards to bring a snow day.
*In elementary school it was said that placing a picture or statue of the
Blessed Mother in the window would bring snow. I think that's also supposed
to bring nice weather too--I guess it all depends on what you're "praying"
for.
*Our staff says to wear your socks to bed the night before an expected
snowstorm.
*My daughter's Girl Scout Troop leader told the girls to put their student
planners/organizers into the freezer. Another Scout mom told the girls to
wear their pj's inside-out when they want a snow day.
*Here in central NY we heard last year to sleep with white socks on and/or
sleep with a fork under your pillow or bed.
*My son's teacher asked the class to go home and dance in front of the
refrigerator to get a snow day! Of course it had to be done in inside out
PJs.
*We do a "snow dance" at a designated time on the evening preceding a
predicted snow. We also wear lots of clothing that has snowflakes or
snowmen, etc.
*Last week I heard 'put a cold spoon under your bed' and 'flush ice cubes
down the toilet'
*My son and I shake a small snow globe and repeat the words "snow day, snow
day." I think he actually picked it up from the movie Snow Day.
*Heard of the rain dance? Locally, there is a snow twirly dance.
*Sprinkling salt around your bed.
*I wear my snowman pajamas the night before.
Superstitions about snow days�
*If you don't pack up extra stuff to take home (schoolwork that you have
been trying to get to), it may not snow.
*Our former science instructor said that the date of the first snowfall was
a predictor of how many days of measurable snow you would have each year.
For example, if the first snow was today, then there would be 12 days of
snow.
For us, our first snow fell on November 27......it could be a wild winter
if this is an accurate predictor!
*My dad used to say that if he washed his car, it would snow the next day.
A coworker swore that it always snowed when he rode his bike to work.
*Everyone comes by to see if I've got the "snow day" headache -- I get
headaches from storms coming through - especially fast moving ones. There's
also a group of us who wear our snowflake earrings!
*Plan a program dress rehearsal for the day before the show.
*Plan a classroom pizza party, with the pizzas already ordered ahead.
*Pile up on your desk 2-3 pieces of paperwork that absolutely MUST be done
the next day OR ELSE. Leave something really important at school: medicine,
boots, your wallet...
*The year we went to Sears and spent 500 or 600 on a snowblower, we didn't
need it!
*I don't know if this would considered superstition or weather folklore, but
our district had an elderly custodian, now long retired, who always said
that the worst snowstorms always came after bright beautiful days. That
advice has often been right, those bright, sunny days are what we used to
call 'weather breeders' back in Illinois.
*I've seen this one actually come true: if you hear thunder in winter, it
will snow within 10 days.
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Juliann T. Moskowitz
Library Media Specialist
Norwalk High School
Norwalk, CT 06851
juliann14@hotmail.com
Reading is a means of thinking with another person�s mind; it forces you to
stretch your own.--Charles Scribner, Jr.
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are
putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. -Mark Twain
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