We will celebrate Carnival on Tuesday, February 13th in our language classrooms. Please note, if your child is not participating in the outlined dress-up options, your child needs to come to school in his/her school uniform. Additionally, please keep in mind that leggings or form-fitting pants of any material type are not considered pants. In other words, if your child chooses to wear leggings, they must wear appropriately-length shorts or skirts over them.
Spanish: As Carnival in Spanish-speaking countries is typically very colorful, students in the Spanish track may dress in jeans with colorful t-shirts. Students will create masks in their classes.
French: Students in the French track are encouraged to dress up as knights, queens, and kings.
German: Students in the German track may dress as children do for Carnaval in the German-speaking countries. Costumes are usually simple and may involve some face paint. Masks are not typically needed (e.g. instead of wearing a lion mask, the face would be painted as a lion face). Please remember that costumes should be funny/happy rather than scary.
Here are some suggestions:
Jobs (e.g. baker, police officer, firefighter, etc.)
Animals (e.g. cat, lion, panda, etc.)
Magical (e.g. witch, wizard, fairy, etc.)
Story or Book Characters (e.g. princess, prince, Pippi Longstocking, etc.)
Mandarin: Choose one of the options above.
Please note (for all tracks):
– Students are not allowed to bring toy weapons (e.g. swords, knives, guns, etc).
– Whole-face masks are also not allowed.
