Homecoming Tiles and Blue and White Day

STUCO has been hard at work on the backdrop for this Fire and Ice themed Homecoming. So far they've finished the fire, but the ice is still missing. Ceiling tiles are done, however. (Every grade has to paint two.) They're exceptional this year, I think.
 

Blue and White Day is at once the easiest day for dressing up...and the most fun, I think.

Ah well. Homecoming week is safely behind us.  I might actually have to come up with other topics...maybe review some of the great books I've been reading.

International Day

There's not much to say about this day. I wish I could say it raised awareness of other people around the world, but I fear that it merely strengthened stereotypes. I didn't help much. But, thanks to Claye, who has an affinity for all things Japanese, I was able to wear this gloriously embroidered robe and be quite comfortable.


The queen of England

 An Argentine gaucho and his Scottish buddy

 An Egyptian lady

                                                        And a Greek

Mexico and Africa

 What I should have done--but thought of too late--was to have dressed as a wheat farmer in red and black and said I was an international harvester...

So Does Anybody Think I'm a Tree?

Not Really? Aw. 

 

Camouflage day was definitely not my strong suit...in fact, finding a suit at all proved rather

 difficult. There was no camo in the house...well, except for these rather warm pants belonging to Turtle.  The students, however, outdid themselves, as you can see for yourself.

Favorite Sports Day

I really wanted to go to school today as a roller skater, but I couldn't find my skates--yes, yet another reason for cleaning out the attic. The students have grown up using roller blades with in-line wheels. They think the old style skates are amazingly difficult to maneuver, so I would have garnished a certain degree of awesomeness. Sigh.

Oh well. I decided to wear my backpacking gear, because I do like to hike. Since I live with an equipment junky, the question was more a matter of what to leave behind than what to take. I agreed to the hat with the sun flap for the neck, but didn't actually wear it because I still have a bit of dignity left. I also left behind the titanium "pooper-scoopper"--which some people actually use to dig a hole in the ground when they stray far from camping "facilities"--because I didn't really want to be explaining all day. I also dangled a compass from my pack, stowed a bottle of DEET for the pesky insects, and carried a cudgel in case I stumbled into a sounder of wild boars.

My students portrayed more conventional sports, I noticed. Here are a few snapshots from the classroom and the halls.

Here's golf


















Volleyball

Baseball

Football

Lacrosse

and martial arts,
otherwise known as
an opportunity to get away with going barefoot to school...

Another Exciting Homecoming Week

Something special about our school is the degree of student participation in almost everything---even crazy dress up days before homecoming. This week we had: royalty Day, fake injury day, highlighter day, movie character day, and of course our normal Friday blue and white day.









On Monday, we were inspired to be in the presence of such important monarchs as Queen Elizabeth, Queen Katherine, and...Hannah Montana? What's she doing here?

This little girl is the Queen Bee.

On Tuesday, injury day, it was difficult to get around in the halls for all the wheelchairs and casts and braces. I wore a bit of bandage tape on my face, but other than that, dressed in ordinary clothes. There was enough fake bleeding to make the place look like a triage tent and I felt some of us needed to be whole enough to care for the injured.

Wednesday, highlighter day, we had one hundred percent participation...thanks to neon duct tape. It was a wild, shiny day.

It was also "See you at the Pole" Day so we rather lit up the street as well.

Yesterday, movie characters were running around everywhere.

I was Gladys Aylward from the Inn of the Sixth Happiness, the science teacher was Ben Stein, from the movie Expelled, and there were students from every genre around...well every genre that didn't stretch the dress code too far.





Our winners on Thursday were  from Veggie Tales: Bob and Larry. They played their instruments and sang in the halls between every class.














Today is blue and white day. The posters will be judged. Homecoming will happen this evening out at the football field...and I'll be running around trying to fit the last of the t-shirt orders with those who ordered...but didn't get them delivered yet. Wish me a blue and white day!