Week of Monday, October 24

Monday, October 24, 2005
Jesse is Back in Time for P. E. and Music Fun!

  It’s a good thing Jesse came back today for P.E. and music because if he wasn’t here, then he would have missed all the Halloween fun.  We did a new Halloween song in music called Five Little Jack-O-Lanterns.  

In P.E. Mrs. Smith taught us a game.  All four walls in the gym had Halloween labels, like Bat Cave, Pumpkin Patch, Spider Web, and Trick or Treat.  We had to run to the one she said, when she said it.  And she sometimes tricked us by saying something we didn’t expect.  

We did another Halloween game in P.E.  We pretended that the huge green rectangle was a house, and there were bean bags in there that we pretended were candy.  Four people were it.  The rest of us had to try to get the bean bags, but if the people tagged us when we were running, we had to drop the candy and go on the other side of the green line and try again.  The game was done when the bean bags were all gone.  Tomorrow will be the Spider Obstacle Course.


Tuesday, October 25, 2005
ESCAPE FROM THE SPIDERS!

We went to the spider obstacle course today in the gym.  Mrs. Smith set it up.  Some fifth graders were there to help us.  So was Taylor’s mom.  There were lots of challenges.  Some were easy, and some were harder.  We had to work our way through without touching the spiders, or the webs, or bells, or balloons, or bowling pins, or pumpkins, or ghosts.  There was a table you had to crawl under without touching the bell.  There was a maze to go through.  Then you had to go through the hula hoops, under the jump ropes on our tummies on little square scooters, tiptoe through the pumpkin patch, climb under the net, and walk across the balance beam without touching the spider.  At the end we all got certificates from Mrs. Smith that said “I escaped from the spiders at physical education.”  We felt tired, excited, and happy.


Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Partners
Mrs. Willard-Reid’s class came over to play Cross Out today.  We let them sit in our chairs and we sat on the floor to watch Mr. Kurtz and Mrs. Willard-Reid play the game in front of us.  Then each class lined up, and Mrs. Willard-Reid paired us off so that we could play with someone from across the hall.  Some people were in groups of three.  We started playing and everyone had fun.  Then we cleaned up, and they went back, and we all did math happily ever after.


Friday, October 28, 2005
Half Day

We had a lot of fun on our half day.  A half day is where you spend only half of the day at school.  We’re at school until just a little while after lunch.  Then we leave school and do other things, like play with our friends, visit each other, read, go fishing, and go to daycare.  

At school this morning we made a wall story about our Halloween costumes.  We had to write our names, draw our Halloween costumes, and print what they were.   The most popular costume was a witch.  Seven people picked that costume.  And three people will be zombies.   The other costumes were cheerleader, Indian, Scream, Darth Vader, goblin, knight, gatekeeper, The Thing, dragon ninja, fairy, Belle, and Batman.  Those are great costumes, and it will be FUN on Halloween!