Several weeks ago my school had a "book character/vocabulary word day". It was a fun day. I dressed up like Pinkalicious. Some other characters of the day were: Little Red Riding Hood, princesses, The Magic Schoolbus, Mr. Slinger, Amelia Bedelia, Fancy Nancy... It was super cute! If the kids didn't dress up they wrote a word on a card with the definition on the back. Some cards were: optimist, monochromatic, rumpus, loving, funny, artistic, etc.
We were so lucky to have the author Barbara Jean Hicks speak at a school assembly on the same day. She was a wonderful presenter and shared a lot about her process as a writer. She also shared about her work with the movie "Frozen" and the books she has wrote using the characters, which our kids loved. My second grade colleague and I read aloud to the school her book "A Sister More Like Me", which was very fun!
