Theme Song

On the walk home from school today Peter was excited to talk to me about what he'd learned at school. "Mom," he asked, "do you know who Rocky Boa is?"

In an attempt to figure out what he was talking about, I asked him to tell me about this Rocky Boa. Peter said he was a boxer. "Oh," I said, "you mean Rocky Balboa?"

"Yeah!"

After many more questions, I learned that his teacher had shown them the famous clip where Rocky is training. Both Bryan and I were at a loss as to why she had shown a bunch of second-graders a film about boxing. Apparently she uses the Rocky theme song as background music to one of their daily writing activities. 

I can only assume that she wanted to explain where the music came from, so she showed it to the kids. This is her thirty-fourth year teaching, so maybe she's been using this since she started?

Peter is now really excited about running up and down our stairs and finding large slabs of meat to punch.