Vocabulary Parade Brings Creativity to Halloween Costumes
Westchester Country Day School students came to school on Halloween dressed as spooky, graceful, unexpected and fun characters ready for the school's annual costume and vocabulary parade.
Pre-K through fifth grade classes paraded throughout the campus as parents, faculty and older students watched, waved and took photos. While all students were encouraged to dress up in a costume, students in grades 3-5 also chose a vocabulary word representing their costume. They presented their words along with a definition and sentence during an assembly in Rives Hall following the parade.
Some costume highlights from the parade included a rubik's cube, worn by fifth grader Anish Upadhyaya who presented the word SCRAMBLED, and Michael Jackson, represented by fifth grader CJ Dial with the word GIFTED – he even moonwalked off the stage! Fifth grader Finch Lambeth dressed as a THREADBARE scarecrow, and fourth grader Tessa Adolff presented the word DELECTABLE as a box of doughnuts. Third grader Seth Gerardo’s out-of-this-world costume was a solar system with the word ORBIT.
This annual school program is inspired by the book "Miss Alaineus, A Vocabulary Disaster," in which the main character confuses the word miscellaneous with a person. She transforms her mistake by showing up to her school's vocabulary parade dressed as Miss Alaineus, Queen of All Miscellaneous Things.
