31-Oct-07 Halloween day

Off Little Red Riding Hood went to school today! Coming home at noon (half day), her basket was full of treats. I let her share them with her little sister and brother even before they ate lunch. J said, "mom, you're spoiling us!"

At school, the Big Bad Wolf was sitting at Little Red's table. (Coincidence.)

There were many characters from Star Wars, including Princess Leia in her pants outfit. There were many characters from Hannah Montana as well. We do not know about these things at our house.

Pippi Longstocking won a prize and so did the Hot Dog. I don't know about his pal Mustard. Wolf won too. I liked Baseball Card and Flamenco Dancer.

Unfortunately I did not get to see the Halloween Parade and so I didn't see many kids from other grades. Eric enjoyed the Parade, although it is always hot on the blacktop!

At N's Parent Ed class, we covered cardboard with flannel to make storyboards. We each got a gate (that's why I cut out 18 yesterday), five pumpkins, and five ghosts that volunteer moms had cut out of felt. We learned a couple of Halloween stories and N just loves to carefully place the felt pieces on the board and move them around with the story. He demonstrated for his sisters and I wish I had caught it on video!

"Five Little Pumpkins"

Five little pumpkins, sitting on a gate

The first one said, "it's getting late!"

The second one said, "there are witches in the air!"

The third one said, "but I don't care!"

The fourth one said, "ooooo, let's run!"

The fifth one said, "it's only Halloween fun!"

Then "ooooooo" went the wind, and (clap) out went the light,

And the five little pumpkins rolled out of sight.

"Five Little Ghosts"

Five little ghosts all dressed in white

Were scaring each other on Halloween Night

The first one said, "I'll scare everyone I see"

The second one said, "You can't scare me!"

The third one said, "Let's hide behind a tree"

The fourth one said, "It's time to disappear"

The fifth one said, "See you on Halloween next year!"

J had Orange and Black Day at school. We left Parent Ed early to go see the kids sing Halloween songs. Darling! Each child got to pick out a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch room!

J's friend "Red" had chickenpox too, but was all scabbed over today so she got to come for the festivities. Surprising that this family had mild cases that only took a few days since they do not vaccinate their children.

What is up with the line spacing? I am going to tear my hair out.

Thank you for commenting on K's post. She absolutely LOVED getting the comments. I find myself always checking for them too!

It's naptime! Rest up for costume-bonanza-trick-or-treating-in-the-new-neighborhood-with-our-friends-hope-N-wears-a-costume-how-many-people-will-come-do-we-have-enough-candy?!