The Mad Hatters Tea Party

Yesterday was the Mad Hatters Tea Party. The Mad Hatters Tea Party is not really a tea party. Instead it is a party that the fourth graders have every year after they finish reading the short version of the book Alice in Wonderland. At the party we started by having our pictures taken by the teacher. The things that we had on were something like this: one of the main things about the Mad Hatters Tea Party is the homemade hat that you make. The hats are very crazy and you are supposed to wear them all of the time except for at recess. You also have to wear your fanciest outfit that you have(but some girls didn't wear their fanciest dress-they would be way too fancy for school). After the pictures were taken the whole class paraded around the whole school and went in all the classrooms. And we weren't quiet at all. Instead, we were handed instruments and were told to be as loud as we could be. After that, we had snack. That was brought by two people, including me. I brought watermelon slices and one of my friends brought peaches. After snack we played croquet. I won 1st place in my group, which surprised me because I don't even remember playing it once! When we were all finished with our games, we went back into the classroom, where we had to recite Twinkle, Twinkle parodies. Mine went like this:

Twinkle, twinkle little worm
How I wonder why you squirm.
Up above the world you fly,
Like a toothbrush in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle little worm,
How I wonder why you squirm.

Next, we got to have lunch. There were many different things, including three different kinds of salads, macaroni and cheese, pizza, pasta with pesto and a lot of other things, too. Then it was recess time, but a girl and I gave it up because we were in a small group that was writing a song for the retiring music teacher. After that we had dessert, one of the best parts of the day. There were chocolate and vanilla pirouettes, cookies, strawberry shortcake, chocolate cupcakes, and either fudgesicles or popsicles. Last but not least, we watched the cartoon version of the movie Alice in Wonderland. The Mad Hatters Tea Party was really fun!