Halloween at BGS

We had such a fun day for our Halloween celebration at school!  We started the day with our school-wide Halloween parade in the gym - each class has a turn at parading around the gym, so we all get to see everyone else's costumes!  Then our school PTO provided a donut and juice for every student for a snack after the parade.  We had pumpkins that had been donated by our amazing parents, so we divided up into groups of 2-4 students and did a "Pumpkin Investigation".  We estimated and measured different parts of our pumpkins, then Mrs. G cut them open, and we got to explore their "guts"!  After lunch we had Halloween centers - we made Halloween-style avatars on the laptops (cartoon versions of ourselves), decorated the pumpkins from the morning, created Frankenstein-style monsters by cutting apart people in magazines, wrote stories about our Frankensteins, wrote "corny" Halloween jokes on candy corn shapes, made Halloween graphs, and practiced measuring by making snack mix.  It was a fun day and it went so fast - at the very end of the day we enjoyed the cutest Halloween cupcakes and listened to a customized Halloween story that one of our students had written (it featured every student in our class!). And the class walked out the door with a Halloween treat bag to take home!  Halloween celebrations at school don't get much better than days like this!