Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Character Dress Up Day 2015

We had a such a great morning today for our Character Dress Up Day! Thanks to all!

First we had a read aloud by Sarah Gauch, who shared a few pages of her new book, The Tomb Robber and King Tut. Ms. Gauch visited the grade 3 Egypt Culture classes today, as they devote a unit to the study of Tutankhamen and his fabulous treasure trove. The ES library has two copies of the new book, as well as 3 copies of her previous book, Voyage to the Pharos.

After Ms. Gauch's short presentation, we had our character parade and oh, so many wonderful costumes of classic literature characters. I hope students had as much fun coming up with their costumes as we had seeing how clever they were.

My favorite costumes were the simplest:  (although the amazing Rapunzel in the tower costume was amazing precisely because it was not simple! Sadly, I don't have a photo of it. If you do, please email me!!) Here are only a few of the many, many great costumes that we saw today.

The rabbit from Alice in Wonderland

Judy Moody from Judy Moody Saves the World

The Old Man and the C -- ha ha!

The Lorax

Splat the Cat

The Man in the Yellow Hat

Willy Wonka's Golden Ticket

The Phantom Tollbooth

Treasure Island - not a character, the whole book!

Judy Moody

Amber Brown

I was so busy with the assembly, I didn't have a chance to take more photos myself. I am looking forward to seeing the undoubtedly wonderful photos our school photographers will take for the yearbook!

The audience behavior of our elementary students today was exemplary. Well done, ES! Even though we were so excited with the parade and the author and the bookmark competition announcements, all the elementary students were attentive and respectful when it was time to listen. We're very proud and we hope this is a trend that will continue to improve.

Here is a short movie by our tech integrators from the parade. Thanks, Ms. Hebba and Ms. Ingy!




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