[LM_NET] SHARE: Wildly Successful RAA Event!

[Susan Grigsby <susan.grigsby@GMAIL.COM>]

I'm SO excited that I had to share what's happening here at Midvale! Before
the February break I decided that a great way to celebrate Dr. Seuss'
birthday and RAA Day would be to have students enter a "Bake a Cake for Dr.
Seuss" contest. I sent home a flyer before the break and got an article in
the school newsletter about the contest. I sent home another flyer as a
reminder on Monday afternoon. During our Tuesday PTA program I had no less
then 6 different families tell me how excited their children were about
baking a cake for Dr. Seuss! One said they had checked out every Dr. Seuss
book they could get for ideas. Another said they had gone to Home Depot to
get advice on how to build a really tall cake! The awards were: The
Daisy-Head Maysie Award (best use of flower decorations), The Gerald McGrew
Award (best use of animal decorations), The King's Stilts Award (the tallest
cake), Thing 1/Thing 2 Award (the most unusually decorated cake), and the
Cat-In-The-Hat Award (the most "seussian" cake). The judges also had the
option of creating their own awards for any cake they loved that didn't
necessarily fit into any of the categories.
I wish you could have seen my face this morning as the cakes started coming
in - we had over 65 cakes sitting all over the cafeteria and they were the
most creative, beautiful, happy cakes I have ever seen! One little girl made
hers in the shape of Horton's head. One little boy created a cake about the
Sneetches with stars and beach balls. We had lots of Cat Hats in the most
beautiful red and white - some big, some small, some bent, some tall! The
King's Stilts award went to a family that recreated the cover of "Ten Apples
On Top" and they figured out how to stack 10 red-iced cupcakes on top of the
base! Please visit our school's website to see the pictures - everyone here
pitched in to help display the cakes and then cut & serve them yesterday. We
had so many come in that we served everyone a piece of cake yesterday and
there is still enough left to serve every student another piece on today's
lunch tray! If you vist the website, please send me a little note so that I
can create a bulletin board of responses to our beautiful cakes!
http://www.dekalb.k12.ga.us/~midvale  Click on the "Students" tab at the top
of the page to see the pictures. Enjoy!!
--
Susan Grigsby, Teacher-Librarian
Midvale Elementary School
Atlanta, Georgia
susan.grigsby@gmail.com

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