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Stadium Drive celebrates “Wacky Wednesday’
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Neighbors | Sarah Foor .A group of Heidi Peachock's first-grade students showed off some of the Dr. Seuss stories and Seuss-themed crafts they completed during Wacky Wednesday on Feb. 29.
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Neighbors | Sarah Foor .Melissa Struharik's first-grade students showed off their mismatched shoes and outfits, as well as their odd eyewear, during their Feb. 29 Wacky Wednesday celebration.
By SARAH FOOR
Kindergarten and first-grade students at Stadium Drive arrived at school on Feb. 29 with mismatched shoes, crazy hair styles and clashing patterns displayed in their outfits.
The choices weren’t accidental — the fun fashion faux-pas were part of the students’ celebration of “Wacky Wednesday.” The event was part of a week of activities focused around Dr. Seuss, whose birthday is celebrated on March 2.
The shenanigans were taken from the pages of Seuss’ book “Wacky Wednesday,” where a youngster wakes up one morning to find the world a little off-kilter and no one noticing anything amiss.
The kindergarten and first-grade classes celebrated with odd outfits that featured details like oversized glasses, wigs and backward shirts.
Barb Gonda’s kindergartners celebrated the day with personal reading time, sharing stories with fourth-grade reading buddies and eating a snack.
“Dr. Seuss is so delightfully wacky that he’s a hit at every age. When our fourth-grade buddies visited the classroom this morning, they enjoyed the stories as much as my kindergartners,” Gonda said.
First-graders joined the fun as well, creating Thing 1 and 2 and Cat in the Hat crafts.
In Melissa Struharik’s first-grade class, students tackled new ideas in math and reading in the context of Seuss. The students completed math plotting and graphing, participated in a Seuss listening center and learned about schema and inference to gather deeper information in a story.
“Among all the craziness that is Dr. Seuss, we’re really learning some serious stuff,” Struharik explained.