Halloween mohawk

So I'm going to shave my head for Halloween.

This is a big deal, because I have grown quite a bird's nest up there; several people tell me every day to get a haircut.

I was thinking I'd be Einstein, grow a mustache, and dye it white--I was actually thinking that as recently as a few hours ago. But my more inspired idea is to actually shave it but keep a mohawk. I'll get hairspray and spike the mohawk. Then I'll get my crappiest button-down shirt and cut off the sleeves, and I'll wear a tie. When they ask me what I'm supposed to be, I'll talk like a punk rocker and tell them I'm dressing up as "The Man" ...

I will be king for a day.

But enough about how cool it will be. The point of this blog post is to see if I can actually bring the coolness of the haircut idea into my math classroom. I mean, great, cool haircut, now what are we doing. Some boring lesson? No--No!! We need a super-cool Halloween lesson for Mohawk Mark to teach. (If I pull this off, I may change the name of this blog to MohawkMark.)

Please submit your ideas for Halloween lessons or Haircut lessons ... something that spreads the joy of a crazy haircut throughout the classroom, the school, and the community!

P.S. Per the discussion over at exploremtbos.wordpress.com ... I can't really read through Twitter that much because I'm doing this artistic exercise called "Reading Deprivation" ... For one week I'm trying not to read anything. I'll read e-mail because I have to, but I'm ignoring my facebook and twitter feeds. Well, I'll check in-boxes, but I'm not going to read the feeds. This week. So far this exercise has been really cool. I am addicted to reading and oftentimes I read when I should be writing lesson plans or grading other stuff. I'll definitely get back to reading the feeds next week--maybe I'll have a more responsible way of doing it, like 20 minutes timed per day scouring the MtBOS. Because it's valuable. My Twitter feed is a lot more valuable to me than my Facebook feed for that very reason.