Everyone has heard of Indian rain dances. Do you believe they work? Well, Mrs. Brooks' sixth grade class just proved that the snow dances really do work.

Mrs. Brooks' class has recently been studying a unit on culture. She showed an educational video of ethnic dances, which caused the students to be interested in the purpose of some of the dances.

A few days later, she brought in an ethnic dance for her class to dance. It was a snow dance. The real way to do the dance is with your pajamas on backwards and wrong side out.

To do the dance you also have to sway right, slow step left and a slow step right; then you repeat the same steps. The next steps you take are a quick step at a left angle, and a quick step to the left angle, then repeat. The whole time you chant, "Snickle, snickle, snee, snee, snow, snow."

Although the class didn't have on pajamas, much less have them on backwards, we still did the dance.

That night, it snowed. The first big snow happened when we did a snow dance. It is proven that the dances really do work.

Some of the students went all out to do or teach the snow dance. Beverly Smith, one of the students at Chandlers School, went outside with her pajamas on backwards and wrong side out and did the snow dance.

Michelle Belt, another Chandlers student, went to Logan County High School to watch the basketball game where she got the idea to tell the teachers how to do the snow dance. At the next basketball game, the teachers who watched or did the dance said, "The snow dance really works."

Do you think it is a coincidence or did the dance really work? When you are ready to be out of school again just let us know-- and we'll dance the snow dance.