3 Crazy-Hair Day

Chapter 3 Crazy-Hair Day Monday was Crazy-Hair Day. My mom put this stinky gel stuff on my hair and combed it all toward the middle to make a fake mohawk. She called it a "fohawk." It was cool. Michael sprayed green dye in his hair. Neil the nude kid had on a baldy wig. He looked just like Mr. Klutz! Ryan put some orange stuff in his hair but left thin, dark lines in it so his head looked like a basketball. Andrea and Emily put colored ribbons and bows all over their hair. Even Mr. Granite had crazy hair. He showed up with purple dreadlocks. It was hilarious. You should have been there!

After we put our backpacks away and pledged the allegiance, Mr. Granite said it was time for math. I hate math. Why do we have to learn math when there are calculators in the world? That's like walking ten miles to a store when you can take a car. It's really hard to pay attention to math

when your teacher has purple dreadlocks. In fact, it was hard to learn anything that morning because we were all looking at each other's crazy hair. My mohawk was itching, too. After a million hundred hours, it was time for lunch. And then, of course, it was the best time of the day. Recess! Recess rocks! It's the only thing I like about school. We get to go out on the playground and do whatever we want. My friend Billy who lives around the corner told me that when you go to heaven, it's like recess all the time. I went to play on the swings with Ryan, Michael, and Neil the nude kid. Andrea and her girly friends hung around so they could annoy us, like always. So there we were, minding our own

business on the swings, when this lady walked over from across the street with yellow hair. Well, her hair was yellow, not the street. It would be weird if streets were yellow.

Anyway, the hair on both sides of her head was curled up into buns like Princess Leia from Star Wars. It looked like she was wearing earmuffs. Or maybe she taped dinner rolls to her head. She looked weird. "Hi kids!" she said. "My name is Elizabeth. But you can call me Mrs. Lizzy." We told Mrs. Lizzy our names. Andrea and Emily said they liked her hairstyle. "Are you Princess Leia?" asked Michael. "Are those dinner rolls taped to your head?" I asked. "Or are you wearing earmuffs?" "Goodness no!" Mrs. Lizzy said. "This is my real hair." "Did you do that for Crazy-Hair Day?" asked Ryan. "No, I wear my hair like this every day," said Mrs. Lizzy. If you ask me, she should cut her hair

and get earmuffs instead. "Are you a new teacher?" asked Andrea, who never misses a chance to brownnose a teacher. "In a way, yes," Mrs. Lizzy told us. "The Board of Education decided that kids don't learn enough in school. So they started the 'Recess Enrichment Program.' That means you kids will get to learn new things during recess. Doesn't that sound like fun?" "Yes!" said the girls. "No!" said the boys. What?! We have to learn stuff during recess? What's the deal with that? Mrs. Lizzy told us boys to cheer up. She said that the Recess Enrichment Program will be fun and that she was going to teach us lots of cool things. Bummer in the summer! It wasn't fair, if you ask me. Recess is supposed to be for