I hope everyone had a great Read Across America day! I know we did.
For the second year in a row my husband came to dress up as the Cat in the Hat.
When I taught second grade last year, the second graders were obsessed with getting him to admit he had been the Cat in the Hat. The little detectives decided he was wearing the same shoes as the Cat in the Hat.
So, this year, he brought a change of shoes. It helped. When he came to help in my classroom later in the day, my fifth graders were sure it was him until someone pointed out his shoes were different. They then fixated on the fact that they could tell through the back of the costume that the person was wearing a “Kid Crushers” jersey. My husband was wearing a sweatshirt that the kids kept waiting for him to take off.
Sidetrack…
Kid Crushers? It sounds worse than it is. Remember, we are in wine country so crushers is a common sports team word. The season where the grapes are harvested is referred to as Crush. Every year our staff plays soccer against the sixth grade. A few years back our fitness coaches had the jersey’s made for us. The game is a bit crazy, they rotate two groups of about 30 sixth graders through. There are a lot less of us playing and yet were undefeated until last year. The end of the year soccer game is a great carrot to hang over the heads of sixth graders that are ready to go off to middle school. Some of them have been looking forward to playing the teachers since Kindergarten.
Back to today…
I love listening to little minds try to prove my husband is the Cat in the Hat. The best argument I heard today was that his hair looked wet and the costume would be hot. My favorite comment of the day was, “You can tell us, its not like we’re the little kids.” I think its fun to keep the mystery alive.
Note to self… next year make sure he brings a change of clothing and wears a plain black t-shirt.
We celebrated today by having buddy reading. A second grade class came and read with my class. I love watching them read together. We also had a Stop, Drop and Read moment. After 15 minutes of reading in math class, I told them it had been fifteen minutes and we could go back to math. One of my usually off task kids pointed out that the announcement had said to read for 20 minutes. I happily gave us another five minutes of reading. We also had fun exploring the Seussville website. Have you checked it out?
How did you celebrate?
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