Book Fair that is. One down, two to go.
Our Fall 2012 Book Fair is over---it's been packed up, financials finished & margaritas consumed at the post Book Fair celebration. I'm not sure how it came to me but I came up with a great idea for the formerly known as "One for Books" but now called "All for Books" campaign. Last year, our principal agreed to dress up like a student for a day. He wore a t-shirt with yes, "student for a day" on it, sweats & sneakers. He went to all the grade levels & spent a 40 minute time block with them. I had him go to gym class with 4th graders & he ate lunch with 3rd graders. If you've ever spent any time in an elementary school cafeteria as an adult you know just how painful that can be. This year I asked if he'd be willing to wear a rainbow afro wig & dance on our morning announcements to the Afro Circus song from Madagascar 3 if we raised enough money for AfB. Being super awesome, he said yes. I decided to ask some of the teachers if they'd be willing to do the same if the kids raised a certain amount of money. A good deal of them said they'd be happy to.
Which is pretty amazing if you think about it. Are you willing to put on a rainbow afro wig & dance to this ridiculous song on camera? Our school has some pretty incredible people working under its roof. Teachers I was sure would say no actually said yes. And they brought props. As the dollar amounts increased, the dances got better & more creative. Our teachers are nothing if not competitive!
Monday, our principal records his dance. Super good sport, that man!
Despite being absolutely bone tired on Friday night, I managed to get the online financials finished. It's not too time consuming so I figured I'd get it out of the way before crawling into bed at 10pm.
Now that Book Fair is over, I need to get things together for the PTA's Treasurer's Audit for last year. Had I been smart I would have started gathering everything back in July. You know, like I said I would. I'm hoping to have everything to our auditor by Thursday.
Then I can truly relax a bit.
And hopefully get the Afro Circus song out of my head. Or at least stop laughing out loud whenever I hear it.
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