This is Dr. Seuss week for West Marshall. In Minnesota we celebrated Dr. Seuss' actual birthday with lots of fun things, but here it's an entire week of celebrating. Today is color day. Seth is to wear purple (I don't think he has any), Rachel is to wear orange (her favorite color) and Brittany is to wear green. I don't know what color I'm supposed to wear being a specials teacher, but I choose the color jeans. That is a really nice side benefit of this week is you can justify wearing jeans with just about every day.
Tomorrow is farmer day. We might struggle with that one a little bit. Wednesday is whacky Wednesday where you wear whatever goes. Thursday is hat day and Friday is pajama day.
Whacky Wednesday is also a lot of fun for teachers because we switch jobs for a couple of hours. Our principal pairs us with another teacher and we have to do their job for the morning. It's both scary and fun at the same time. The kids absolutely love it and most are really good about helping you follow the normal routine. My favorite is that the Kdg. teachers have their "subs" make oobleck during that time.
Friday is the mother of all Dr. Seuss days though. There is absolutely nothing resembling our normal schedule at all. My room is used for a book exchange. Kids can bring in books and for every one they bring in, they take a different one home. Very cool. The gym has Dr. Seuss-themed games. I remember one from last year "Hop on Pop" where they have pictures of a bear taped to the gym floor and they use hippity-hops to land on each one. There has also been a month-long reading contest for the building for the month of February. If we met our goal, we get to do something to our principal. There are also great prizes for the top readers in each grade. Last year Brittany won for 1st grade and she received a series of chapter books. She read a lot this year. I don't know if it will be enough. We'll find out Friday.
So it's going to be an interesting week. I'll try to get some pictures posted of the kids for all these.
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