A very isolated snowstorm struck a single kindergarten classroom at Northside School in Niles Thursday.

Teacher Liane Hoppstock dumped three large bags full of shredded white paper in the middle of the classroom to the delight of her students.

“Exciting” is how student Kaylynn Kirk described it.

“I jumped in it right away and I screamed,” she said.

Classmate Darren Sulak said he felt as “crazy as a big bear” when Hoppstock let the “snow” fly.

“I loved getting buried in it,” he said.

It is the ninth or 10th year that Hoppstock has let the snowstorm party blow into her classroom.

In addition to playing in the snow, students made a gingerbread house, jewelry and a bag of “reindeer dust” that could be put in their yard for Santa’s reindeer.

Hoppstock said it’s a day her students really enjoy.

“It’s an experience you can’t match,” she said. “I still have students years later that remember the snow storm.”

Some students even said they prefer the paper snow to the real stuff.

“I like it better because you don’t get cold and you don’t get sick,” Sulak said.