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Feast of Food From Fiction
The daylong celebration commenced with Mrs. Lidston dressed as a Big Mac to greet students at the buses. By mid-morning, she had donned chef’s attire to offer them chocolate chip cookie snacks. Then, at lunch, she dished out culinary delights from favorite books like Maurice Sendak’s Chicken Soup with Rice, Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham, and Laura Numeroff’s If You Give a Moose a Muffin.
The children, meanwhile, enjoyed the opportunity to dress in the colors of their favorite foods: red for spaghetti, pizza, apples, and strawberries; brown for chocolate; blue for blueberries; and even a colorful mix for rainbow lollipops.
At the end-of-day assembly, fourth-graders Lizzie and Willie, along with Mrs. Truitt and Mrs. Preston’s class, led a chorus of apropos songs, including “Food, Glorious Food” and “Animal Crackers in My Soup.” All the lower schoolers clapped and cheered as they watched a slide show chronicling their day of delicious dining. They even got take-home treats, “chocolate frogs” from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
While the lower schoolers feasted, they also remembered those without enough to eat. They contributed cans and boxes of nonperishable food for an emergency food pantry in Baltimore.
This was yet another of Mrs. Lidston’s successful summer reading challenges. For the past nine years, the former reading teacher has encouraged students to use summer vacation time not only to play and relax, but to read. She has offered them an assortment of amusing rewards, including opportunities to see her milk a cow, jump over the moon, kiss a frog, and jump in a lake.
The daylong celebration commenced with Mrs. Lidston dressed as a Big Mac to greet students at the buses. By mid-morning, she had donned chef’s attire to offer them chocolate chip cookie snacks. Then, at lunch, she dished out culinary delights from favorite books like Maurice Sendak’s Chicken Soup with Rice, Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham, and Laura Numeroff’s If You Give a Moose a Muffin.
The children, meanwhile, enjoyed the opportunity to dress in the colors of their favorite foods: red for spaghetti, pizza, apples, and strawberries; brown for chocolate; blue for blueberries; and even a colorful mix for rainbow lollipops.
At the end-of-day assembly, fourth-graders Lizzie and Willie, along with Mrs. Truitt and Mrs. Preston’s class, led a chorus of apropos songs, including “Food, Glorious Food” and “Animal Crackers in My Soup.” All the lower schoolers clapped and cheered as they watched a slide show chronicling their day of delicious dining. They even got take-home treats, “chocolate frogs” from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
While the lower schoolers feasted, they also remembered those without enough to eat. They contributed cans and boxes of nonperishable food for an emergency food pantry in Baltimore.
This was yet another of Mrs. Lidston’s successful summer reading challenges. For the past nine years, the former reading teacher has encouraged students to use summer vacation time not only to play and relax, but to read. She has offered them an assortment of amusing rewards, including opportunities to see her milk a cow, jump over the moon, kiss a frog, and jump in a lake.