I was the only teacher to dress up. For my black cat costume, I wore all black and made myself ears (using a black headband) and a tail. When I walked into the classroom the kids screamed and laughed with delight. Seeing an adult dressed up, with eyeliner whiskers drawn on my face, was a strange sight for them and they weren’t really sure how to react. Some of them had on orange shirts, but none wore costumes to school.
My only classes were 5A and B. Instead of holding class, they got to watch Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride in Spanish (because they would not understand the English version). These are two of the worst behaved classes (5B is the worst), yet they still go to watch a movie instead of going to class like normal. The students were hilarious: one of them told David that they shouldn’t watch the movie in Spanish because most of them had already seen it and I wouldn’t be able to understand the movie in Spanish (I could).
During lunch, Erin and I went class-to-class distributing lollypop ghosts. We took lollypops and covered them with tissues, tied a string around them and gave them a face. Some of the kids really liked the ghosts, and the others just liked that we were giving them candy. I took pictures of my kids. All-in-all Halloween was successful. We made sure to do meaningful activities that taught the kids the vocabulary and customs related to Halloween. Almost every kid in the school made some kind of mask and many of them colored Halloween pictures or made clothes pin bats. I was pleased how our first American holiday turned out.
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