Huck’s school has a tradition of celebrating Mad Hatter’s Day right alongside Halloween.  Friday afternoon was the Mad Hatter’s Parade, where each class wore hats that represent what they’re studying and walked around the school block singing loudly and proudly for all of Inwood to hear.   Huck’s class has been learning chess and so they made pink and blue queen and king crowns with “CHESS MASTER” written on them (or “CHESS MASTR” if you’re Huck).  It was a pretty chilly, windy day which helped teach the children the phrase “hold onto your hats.”  The drama teacher Dayna, who wears a different fancy hat every single day, built a Shakespeare’s “Tempest” hat that was so tall she had to kneel down on the ground in order to exit through doors (as one of the pictures below reveals).  And the principal Camille, who is very new to the school, was THE MAD HATTER!  On her hat were the names of every single student, teacher and staff member at Muscota, since that is what she’s learning right now.  The whole school (and all of us parents that came to take pictures) then met in the gym for some singing, some showing off of hats, some applause, some laughter and some dancing.  Hats will never be the same.

And as if that wasn’t enough, then came the Mad Hatter’s Ball last night where Huck planted his own Venus Flytrap, had his nails done, got a tattoo, made a purple bead necklace, got inspired to learn the Macarena dance, and played in a cardboard tunnel with his girlfriends for an hour straight.  All this fun and we haven’t even gotten to the actual Halloween festivities.  YET …