She decorated pumpkins as Ernie & Bert to decorate the kitchen for fall. |
- Throughout the year, she decorates the kitchen for each season with her own hand-made creations, including gingerbread houses and specially decorated pumpkins.
- She randomly surprises students with stickers for eating their vegetables and trying new dishes.
With students on Book Character Day. |
- She created 'Lucky Lunch Day', to encourage students who might not normally buy a lunch to try school food. (Students who participate are randomly chosen for prizes she purchased).
- If there is a surplus of a particular side item, she draws funny faces on them to entice students to choose it. (A clever way to promote white milk over chocolate).
- She not only dresses up for school theme days, i.e., "Career Day" and "Book Character Day," she also creates her own theme days. For example, on Cinco de Mayo you will find her wearing a sombrero and mustache.
- She is also a talented cake maker who creates special cakes for staff meetings and retirement parties.
- She participates in school events on weekends and evenings-even bringing along her grown daughter to share a PTO Breakfast with Santa.