Pass the Pigs

Over Christmas break this year I decided to pick up a few new games for my middle schoolers. A game store in Pennsylvania was going out of business (who can resist a slash-n-burn?) and so I wandered in looking for Settlers of Catan. Apparently so had everyone else and their mom and so I quickly had to re-adjust. Rummaging through the various games I came across an old favorite, Pass the Pigs. I laughed to myself, motioned for my sisters to come over, and told them this would surely be the new favorite in the classroom.

Boy was I right.

By the second day, almost all of my middle schoolers were crowded around our round tables throwing pigs like dice into the middle of the table shouting out the names of the different poses and their associated points.

One morning, after the some of the students had finished math, we pulled out the "Pig Game" as one student referred to it. We began rolling pigs. After one student had gone, he looked over at me. I knew he was going to ask me something, which always proves a good time.

Student: Ms. S, do you have something on your eyes?

Me: Yes.

Student: What is that brown stuff called?

Me: Eye shadow.

Student: Oh, why do you wear it?

Me: To make my eyes pretty.

Student: Well, why don't you wear stuff on your lips or eyebrows?

Me: Good question, good question.