Today is Mardi Gras, which is French for Fat Tuesday (or Fat Day, as some of our friends were calling it). Annabel's mother Marguerite is from New Orleans, and shared with us the tradition of masks and parades for this special day.
Marguerite showed a book that illustrated the classic styles of celebrating Mardi Gras with parades and particular attire. She also brought wooden Owl masks for us to decorate, and friends were extremely focused and intent on creating majestic Owls. We were so excited that we needed to do a parade around Lower School chanting, "It's Mardi Gras, we're gonna have a ball, let's march, march, march!"
Alicia visited today and played a game with us to help us with our Spanish colors. Cards for each color were laid out on the floor and two friends were given a fly swatter. Each time a color in English was called, the players needed to move quickly to swat the corresponding Spanish name. The Owls were so excited to play!
We also launched our first day of mailing out of letters through the First Grade Post Office! We bought stamps, wrote more (and more...and more...) letters, and delivered them to the drop off box. In just a shorty amount of time, our letters will be carried off by busy 7 year old postal workers to their destination.
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