Friday Kaden's school had a vocabulary parade. Each kid had to choose a word from their class vocab list and somehow dress up as their word. They then proceeded to march around the school, single file. Twice. They didn't do all the grades at once. I think Kaden's parade was K-2, but I know the older grades dis it too because I talked to the mom of a 4th grader.
We chose "lure."
Kaden and I talked about what would be a good thing to use to lure kids and teachers to him.
We decided on candy and money.
The only rules were that they had to have their word on a sign somewhere and that they had to stay in dress code during the day. I made a sign that Kaden colored. (I actually found two free fishing lure fonts. I only ended up using one and only for the first letter because it seemed too busy but TWO free fishing lure fonts?! The internet is a crazy place.)
Then I found images of 100 bills and Twix, Snickers, and Skittles. I enlarged 'em and printed enough so everything could be two-sided and then had Kaden cut and paste.
We assembled a fishing pole out of a stick and some raffia.
All assembled and posing before school:
Then later in the day at school:
Here come "lure" and "combat."
He was supposed to hold it out like a fishing pole and dangle his lure. Instead he paraded with his stick as his staff. Oh well. I tried.
Some other cute ones we saw were:
Glider - boy wearing glider wings, his word spelled across them
Observe - a girl holding a giant magnifying lens made out of poster board, wearing a sign with eyes all around her word.
Drizzle - boy wearing a clear poncho with giant blue raindrops taped all over it.
Fun idea and I'm told this is an annual event, so probably the first of many. Especially since Blue should be there next year too!
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