Happy Halloween!

We are not sure where the Grade One's were today! They were nowhere to be seen! Sitting in their desks today were Spiderman, Tinkerbell, an astronaut, a police officer, a bunny, a skeleton, a cowgirl (complete with horse) and Lego Man, just to name a few. Hopefully Mrs. Beliveau's students return tomorrow!

Every minute of our day today was packed with Halloween fun!

We began the day sharing our Halloween stories with eachother. We have spent the last week creating our own pattern writing based upon the book It Didn't Frighten Me, by Goss and Harste. The students did a wonderful job finishing the rhyming pattern to make it their own. They also followed a set of criteria to create strong illustrations (e.g. no white spaces, colour in the lines, use colours that make sense, use 5 of more colours, etc). The projects turned out so well that they will be placed in the children's Evidence of Learning binders for your perusal in a few short weeks.

Sharing their stories with eachother

After a a brief breath of fresh air after a surprising fire drill and a heart-pounding trip through the Haunted House, we tackled our Snazzy Snack  for this month. We made Monster Mash! We added green food dye to vanilla pudding, and after drawing a spooky monster face on a clear cup, filled the cup with the green goo and added cookie crumb hair.  Tomorrow we will write out the recipe together. (Unfortunately there were no pictures of the final monsters ... they were devoured to quickly!)

After lunch, we had a costume parade around the gym and then hit the dance floor! Thanks, Mr. Roman, for the awesome beats!



We enjoyed the last part of our day rotating through several centres. Students built goofy and scary creations with sparkly play dough, challenged eachother to several rounds of Pumpkin Concentration and Ghost Bowling, relaxed with some favourite Halloween stories, and tried to get a line playing Halloween BINGO.

Hopefully the real Grade One students are back in their desks tomorrow!