As finale to ‘I Love To Read Month,’ MLES students, staff dress as favorite book characters
All throughout the month of February, the students and staff at Mountain Lake Public Elementary School (MLES) have been celebrating the “I Love To Read Month” with a variety of activities – Mystery Readers, Teacher Reading Swap, Guess the Reader bulletin board, “Wear A Shirt From Somewhere You Have Traveled Day,” “PJ Day,” “Hat Day” and “Class Color Day” – as well as Rabbit’s Reading Burrow in the elementary library.
As a finale on Friday, February 28, favorite book characters jumped right off the pages and into the classrooms, hallways and cafeteria at MLES. The day was dedicated as “Dress As Favorite Book Character Day” in order to allow students and staff to celebrate and bring to life the special characters and stories they have enjoyed reading about.
The activities of the month were coordinated by Darcy Snyder, Kristine Friesen, Jenn Fast, Amy Hartzler, Joan Raabe, Martha Standerwick, Mary Brown, Tammy Wolle and Crystal Fast.
Below are a few photographs of some those favorite book characters brought to life.
MLES FACULTY MEMBERS sport their favorite character costumes. Front left, Pete the Cat from “Rocking in My School Shoes” (kindergarten teacher Nicole James) and right, a fancified Nancy from the selection, “Fancy Nancy” (first-grade teacher Kim Blomgren). Back, from left, the lumberjack of folklore, Paul Bunyan, his axe – and Babe the Blue Ox – whose stories were first shared by James MacGillivray and later by William Laughead (sixth-grade teacher Kyle Blomgren) Shaggy and Scooby Doo (fourth-grade teacher Matt Anderson and second-grade teacher Kristine Friesen), the Mouse of author Laura Numeroff’s “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” (second-grade teacher Crystal Fast) and Piggy of the Elephant and Piggy reading series, especially the title, “I Will Suprise My Friend” (first-grade teacher Kelli Tucholke).PARAPROFESSIONAL SUSAN JYRKAS salutes one of her favorite books, “The Cat in the Hat” by Dr. Seuss – along with two characters pulled from its pages, “Thing One” and “Thing Two.”FOURTH-GRADE STUDENT Harlan Munning as “Pizza Pat” of pizza-making fame.
MIKE MULLIGAN (A.K.A. Gordon Krause, a paraprofessional at MLES) is on the prowl in the hall in order to find his steam shovel from the book of the same name.
IRISH AUTHOR EOIN Colfer’s lead character, Artemis Fowl II, as portrayed by fourth-grade student Kade Wassman.
