I've always loved Halloween, both as a child and an adult. My childhood memories are filled with memories of cold trick or treating nights with best friends, candy counting and trading with my little sister, and my mom and her best friends getting into fabulous costumes to take us out in the neighborhood. As I got older and "too cool" to dress up, my Halloween nights became full of shaving creaming each other, silly stringing, and watching Thriller in a friend's basement. It never got old. My husband and I got into the spirit last year, had a Halloween party, and dressed up as Fred and Wilma.
I find it so very fun to be able to relive Halloween through the eyes of children every year at school. When I first started out working in a special education department as a teaching assistant, I organized twenty staff members into "Where's Waldo" themed costumes. I always try to get my grade level team members to get into the spirit. Where's Waldo has come in quite handy in school. This year, our entire faculty is dressing as different EMOJIs! The fifth grade team decided to be the smiling one with heart-eyes. Here I am before the kids arrived:
We managed to get through all of the lessons I wanted to get through this morning (we have a LONG morning), and so we were able to get a little festive and have some fun. I threw on some favorite Halloween music and we got to work making masks:
We also had a party - how adorable are these treats the parents provided? I can't get enough of them!
Of course I also had a reading comprehension and math activity Halloween-themed packet ready to go for the entire class.
The afternoon is our Halloween sing-a-long and then parade.
How'd you celebrate with your class?
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