By Annabeth Miller, SMT Editor
The number is pretty important.
There are 50 states, 50 cents, it’s a “golden number” for anniversaries. Barbie even celebrated her 50th “birthday”!
Today (Monday, Oct. 31) is the 50th day of school for students in the Dexter schools, and the kids in Shannon Putnam’s first grade classroom at Southwest Elementary are celebrating all things 50.
Many of the students dressed right out of the 1950s – complete with “oodles of poodles” on skirts and boys dressed as “Fonzie wannabe”s with t-shirts and cuffed jeans. Putname and Cadet Teacher Evie Dehne even got into the act, sporting poodle skirts of their own.
Throughout the day the students celebrated things in increments of 50 = 50 seconds, 50 jumping jacks, and on and on. They even celebrated with soda floats popped bubble gum!
Photo Above: First grade students celebrated the 50th day of school on Monday - dressing right of the '50's and celebrating all things "50." First grade teacher Shannon Putnam (standing, left) and Cadet Teacher Evie Dehne (standing, right) celebrated with the students Monday morning - showing off in their outfirst right out of the Nifty Fifties! (SMT Photo by Annabeth Miller)
