The Goings-on at School

A couple of fun things happened at the kids' school in November.  First was Book Character Day.  The kids get excited about any opportunity to wear something other than their school uniform, but this was almost like 2nd Halloween.  After talking about a few options, I realized it would be easy for Cat to dress up as Fern from Charlotte's Web, and that was also a fun choice because her class was reading the book at the time.  She loved the idea.  Done.

We had some discussion with Jack, too, and though I couldn't convince him to be Wilbur, he decided he would love to be a spider.  Charlotte A. Cavatica, to be specific.  He was SO EXCITED about it, too.  He begged and begged for me to get his costume ready.  We rounded up all of the black clothes we could find that fit him, then stuffed some of my long black socks with batting to give him extra legs.  A white yarn spiderweb wrapped loosely around him was the final touch.  He was a pretty great Charlotte, if you ask me.

I was out of town on Book Character Day, but Ben knew enough to take pictures for me.  Here is Cat's outfit, laid out the night before, complete with her own little Wilbur.

Eliza wanted in on the dress-up and picture-taking action too.

 The second fun event was Cat's Thanksgiving Play with the rest of the 3rd Grade.  The name of the play was "Turkeys On Strike" and it was all about what Thanksgiving would be like if we no longer had our traditional elements of the holiday - no turkey, no football, no Thursday celebration.  She loved the whole process of putting the play together.  She got the role she wanted (a TV reporter) and a bonus role: the biggest solo of the play at the end.  She was the only one who's casting required a costume change, which of course was awesome.  She did a great job, and we loved finally getting to watch the play we'd been hearing, and hearing about, for months.