Friday. It was an eighth grade English class, but most of the class was missing as they were on an end of the year field trip. (They went to a local movie theater to see The Little Mermaid.)
Not every student gets to go on these excursions, so I had a few students in every class. Their teacher left a video for them to watch. (Surprisingly, it did not go badly. I had one minor glitch. Maybe my luck has turned.)
I turned off the video before the end of the period. The kiddos had enough time to engage in the newest fad.
The first time I saw this was maybe two weeks ago. (Not longer than a month ago.) And within days, it became a thing I saw daily.
Two boys (it's always boys, at least so far) stand three-ish feet apart. One moves his hand. The other moves his head. It's rather innocuous, and it rarely lasts very long, so I'm not concerned. Just curious. But I never got a chance to ask the question.
Until that day.
"What are you doing?"
Apparently, it's called shadow boxing. (Not the shadow boxing I knew of.) Or the finger pointing game.
Now that I had a name, I could do a search online. And yep, it's a thing. I found a site with the rules. And there are videos.
I guess it's probably huge on TikTok right now. If you're into that sort of thing.
Anyway, I just wanted to let you all know about the newest fad floating around the middle and high schools. (I would not be surprised to find it happening at elementary schools as well.) We'll see how long this game lasts.