Halloween
November 1, 2025 Good morning-----well, it is November already, and 6 weeks until Christmas Holidays, but who is counting!! We had a terrific Halloween day at school--it wasn't over the top, but very manageable. Regularish class in the morning, and then an afternoon with the costume parade, class room door decoration contest and the choice of gym activities, story reading, face painting or movie. I did the story telling, and my room was full to the brim of excited students of all ages. I read the Robert Munsch book, BOO. You should have been there--total focus and total participation at the repetition parts--really loved it. I am so glad I brought my own books for the fall because there is NO library in the school. It was totally dismantled last year, all the books given away, put in the garbage or burned because the library was thought to be a waste of space, and because it wasn't being used very much. This is the trend in the north. It is beli...