The Full Moon

I'm not normally a superstitious person and, knock on wood, I won't become one. But, I have noticed an interesting trend. When I taught in Roanoke, the students tended to be decidedly worse on the day of the full moon. Really.

So, today, when the kid were acting like lunatics (how about THAT reference...), I suddenly realized what today was.

That's right. The full moon. And not just any full moon - the full wolf moon. The Farmer's Almanac says this about the full wolf moon:

Full Wolf Moon - January: Amid the cold and deep snows of midwinter, the wolf packs howled hungrily outside Indian villages. Thus, the name for January's full Moon. Sometimes it was also referred to as the Old Moon, or the Moon After Yule. Some called it the Full Snow Moon, but most tribes applied that name to the next Moon.

Ah yes, the sounds of howling outside the village has been replaced by the howling at the classroom door.