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Gooney bird and the room mother5/20/2023 When, finally, her boots were unlaced and removed, everyone could see that Gooney Bird was wearing one red sock and one yellow one. Gooney Bird took the longest because she was wearing hiking boots that laced halfway up to her knees. One by one the children had removed their shoes. "We always take our shoes off at home," Keiko had said as she untied her sneakers, "because my family came from Japan, and in Japan people never ever wear shoes in the house." If they walked on the edge of the mural, their shoes would leave marks. Pidgeon had suggested that it would be wise to take them off. The children's shoes were lined up in the coatroom because Mrs. "I like to be right smack in the middle of everything," Gooney Bird always said. Gooney Bird Greene was right in the middle, as usual. All of the desks had been pushed to one side to make room, and the second-graders were on their hands and knees, working with crayons. Pidgeon's second grade students were hard at work on their Pilgrim mural, which had been laid out on the floor.
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