The Cheese/Pee Touch

Have I mentioned how much I love 5th graders??? My kids were cracking me up today with an interesting activity stemming from this book. If you haven't read the book(you should, it's hilarious), you may have seen the trailer for the movie that's coming out. In the trailer they mention "The Cheese Touch". Basically there's this really old, nasty piece of cheese on the blacktop that's been there forever & if you touch it, you get The Cheese Touch. Once infected, other kids will stop at nothing to avoid contact with you because The Cheese Touch can be passed on from kid to kid. Well, apparently one of my boys stepped in pee in the bathroom today, and thus began...The Pee Touch. I first noticed something was wrong when I kept seeing my kids walking around with their fingers crossed. Then at recess I asked a kid why they weren't playing tag like usual. His response: Mrs. M, it is way too dangerous for tag with The Pee Touch out there. I made the mistake of asking what that was & got the bathroom story, then I learned that the crossing your fingers is the only thing that gives you immunity from The Pee Touch. For the rest of recess I watched The Pee Touch get passed around (to pass on The Pee Touch, you simply poke someone with your finger & say, "touch." Then you burst into ewwwing, pointing, and yelling, "Now you've got the pee touch!" Right before we went in, it was finally passed to me. I had thought I had immunity, being the teacher & all, but alas, no. Well, here's the good news, teachers pretty much get to cheat in any game because with the great authority you have comes a fair amount of corruption. It's the truth, people. So I simply waited until the kids were writing in their planners at the end of the day and passed The Pee Touch on to an unsuspecting kid who was simply following directions. Now he's stuck with it until tomorrow, when we will all be walking around with our fingers crossed trying to avoid contracting this horrible disease.