School assemblies today? Forget it! The weatherman promised an inch of snow last night for South East Michigan schools, but he was wrong. Michigan schools in the lower peninsula awoke this morning to as much as a foot of snow. A foot of snow! It was over the bumper of my car! Now, being that today is Presidents Day, many schools are closed anyway, but some were scheduled to be open. Not anymore! Ohio schools, Michigan schools, Indiana schools ... schools from Texas to Pennsylvania are all closed today!

Great news for kids!

But for weary administrators trying to get in the minimum number of school days this year, another snow day is a headache they do not need. Some schools that were scheduled to have session today were only doing so to make up for earlier snow days. For many schools in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and other Midwestern states as well as on the East Coast, this year’s winter means the school year will be extended much longer than planned. For some schools, the year may push into mid to late June or even into July! Wow, what is a school to do with the kids for that long?

The answer, dear friends (as you will have guessed, no doubt!) is to reward the kids and pacify the staff with a great educational school show or school assembly! Great school shows are designed to both entertain and educate. After testing is done, and the school year stretches out longer, school assemblies are a great treat for the school and a wonderful way to fill the time with an activity which is not just entertaining but also serves to continue the educational process. When it gets near the end of the school year, and the days have gotten warm, kids, understandably, are often distracted and begin to find their attention drifting from matters at hand, and away toward pleasurable summer pursuits. A great school assembly will snap them back to attention with it’s entertainment content but still preserve the educational theme with it’s inherent educational value.

A program such as our Earth Balloon assembly, The Earth Dome, is a perfect example. A giant globe standing 20 feet tall, Earth Balloon is a jaw dropping experience and an awesome day long visit at your school will certainly provoke interest among the students, while also teaching them all about our planet.

Sky Dome Planetarium is another “event” style school assembly guaranteed to produce excitement. This portable planetarium gives kids a thrilling ride thru the heavens and also teaches them the basics of Astronomy.

And absolutely perfect for a late year school assembly is Lights, Camera, Action. This day long school assembly brings thousands of dollars worth of television and video equipment into your school for the day and shows kids just how television production is done. Show me some kids who don’t like television.

Best of all, Mobile Ed is making dates in April, May and June available to schools now at a reduced price!

Don’t wait! May will arrive soon and your kids will be looking at you wondering what you have planned for them. Call and set something up for your school today!

Geoff Beauchamp is the Regional Manager of Mobile Ed Productions where "Education Through Entertainment" has been the guiding principal since 1979. Mobile Ed Productions produces and markets quality educational school assembly programs in the fields of science, history, writing, astronomy, natural science, mathematics, character issues and a variety of other curriculum based areas. In addition, Mr. Beauchamp is a professional actor with 30 years of experience in film, television and on stage. He created and still performs occasionally in Mobile Ed's THE LIVING LINCOLN