Ms. S. was unable to make it to school today. Today's guest post comes to you from Ms. Valerie Frizzle, elementary teacher extraordinaire and driver/pilot of the Magic School Bus.
You know, it's funny that as much as my friend Ms. S. loves Halloween, somehow she always manages to miss school on Halloween for some reason or another. It's becoming a pattern. So I wasn't surprised to get the call last night that she was looking for a substitute to cover her class.
This presented a serious dilemma: what to wear? Of course, I couldn't wear the same old thing I wore the last time I substituted for Ms. S. Children remember these things . . . and they ask probing questions like, "Why do you always wear that same dress?" That would never do.Of course, it is also important to match the dress to the lesson. I hear the children have been learning about the bones in the human skeleton and also that they have been making calaveras in preparation for El Dia de Los Muertos. Fortunately, I have recently updated my wardrobe,
but as everyone knows, it's the accessories that make the outfit. 
Clackity, clack. Don't talk back!
I always get some strange looks when I arrive at Ms. S's school. Some look longer than is really polite, and then I see them giggling behind their hands--especially adults. I think they just get a little over-excited by my fabulous fashion sense.
Seatbelts, everyone! It's going to be an exciting day!
Of course, a visit from me is never without learning! We began by reading The Skeleton Inside Me, and then we learned the names of the bones in the skeleton.
Then we played Skeleton Simon Says.
Simon says, "Touch your cranium."
Simon says, "Touch your radius and ulna."
(Simon didn't say, "Fracture your radius and ulna!")
Bus, do your stuff!
There's a Book for That!
The Skeleton Inside Me by Philip Balestrino
The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body by Joanna Cole
Bones by Seymour Simon
Bones by Steve Jenkins
Skeleton Hiccups by Margery Cuyler
The Skull Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta
Skeleton (DK Eyewitness Books)
Calavera Abecedario by Jeanette Winter
Overheard today at school:
ReplyDelete"I thought Ms. Frizzle was fiction, but now I know she's real."
"I like those shoes."
"Ms. Frizzle doesn't wear glasses."
"How come you sound like Ms. S?"
"If that's Ms. Frizzle, how does she know all the work? How does she know which lessons to give?" "I think Ms. S taught her all the things before she came in here."
"That's just Ms. S wearing a wig." "No. Wigs are itchy. If she was wearing a wig, she would be itching all day long."
"Where did you get that dress? Because not very many dresses are as weird as yours."
"I know it's her Halloween costume." "It's not a costume. Ms. Frizzle always dresses that way."
"Where's your magic school bus? Are we going on a special field trip?"
And from one wide-eyed first grader who looked at Ms. Frizzle VERY closely for a long time, "Oh! I see it! There's blond hair peeking out from under your red hair!"
Then whispered to Miss D, "That's just Ms. S. wearing a disguise. I know it."
I'm always amazed you manage to get the same sub every year. Her outfit is fabulous!
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