The Day the Beads Came Down | Steph Lewis's Blog

I have this huge container in my class that is full of beads for jewelry projects. It has, oh, about 6 pounds of beads (which translates to maybe 5,000 beads or so). Yeah. One of my students dropped it today. It was a nice, peaceful time with everyone working hard on projects. Then, BAM! SPLOOSH!!! (It’s amazing how beads sound like waves). SCITTERRRRR….. Oops! *Laughter* Everyone looks to me to see my reaction. My reaction is this, “Everyone get a broom & dustpan!” Immediately everyone stands up and starts crawling around my classroom like a crazy bunch of guinea pigs…or whatever else crawls around crazily. I’d say we were crawling around like Henson, but that would assume that we were eating the beads, which we were not.
It was actually kind of fun. It’s neat to see a bunch of middle schoolers turn into human bead vacuums. The students were laughing too…it’s the hottest topic in the halls.
Crafts class rules.

3 thoughts on “The Day the Beads Came Down”

I love strange sounds like that! We have some lights on a grid outside my office that make a tinkling sound when the blink on, and there are about ten of them on the grid, controlled by one switch. So when you hit the switch and they’ve been off for awhile, they all go tink… tink… tinktink… tinktinktinktinktinktinktinktinktinktinktinktink.
It’s a beautiful sound. I turn the lights on just to hear it.

At UW-Stevens Point the sprung wooden floor would sigh at the end of the day at about 10pm. I would lay on the floor and listen to the floor creek around me. At first it feaked me out because it sounded like someone walking on it, yet no one was around. Now I miss the sound.

I love the sound of those little plastic cups that people using for communion all getting put in the cup holder thingies in the pews after everyone drinks their grape juice. Especially if you’re sitting in the balcony at Trinity. Seriously, you have to sit up there sometime during communion just to hear that sound. It sounds like walking through a bunch of mushrooms or something.

JL! on May 19, 2004 at 3:15 pm said:

I love strange sounds like that! We have some lights on a grid outside my office that make a tinkling sound when the blink on, and there are about ten of them on the grid, controlled by one switch. So when you hit the switch and they’ve been off for awhile, they all go tink… tink… tinktink… tinktinktinktinktinktinktinktinktinktinktinktink.
It’s a beautiful sound. I turn the lights on just to hear it.
eddie on May 21, 2004 at 1:03 pm said:

At UW-Stevens Point the sprung wooden floor would sigh at the end of the day at about 10pm. I would lay on the floor and listen to the floor creek around me. At first it feaked me out because it sounded like someone walking on it, yet no one was around. Now I miss the sound.
Steph on May 24, 2004 at 9:31 am said:

I love the sound of those little plastic cups that people using for communion all getting put in the cup holder thingies in the pews after everyone drinks their grape juice. Especially if you’re sitting in the balcony at Trinity. Seriously, you have to sit up there sometime during communion just to hear that sound. It sounds like walking through a bunch of mushrooms or something.