Happy Halloween!

I feel like Halloween has lasted all week...because it has. On Monday my ward had a combined Halloween party/dance. I dressed as a nerd because that's what my co-workers and I were originally planning to be at school. I had a fun time and then went home. Wednesday wasn't technically Halloween related at school, but it felt like it. We finished up a unit on Ancient Egypt and had all of our 6th graders bring in the projects they were working on at home. Once lunch hit, chaos broke out as we had parents and visiting classes walking through each of our rooms to check out everything. Thursday, we celebrated Halloween at the school as we had Friday off to make up for the time the teachers put in for parent-teacher conferences the week before. Friday and Saturday night, I watched "scary movies with people in my ward and my brother and his wife.

Halloween with my co-workers is always a blast. The last few years, we have dressed up using one theme or another. Two years ago we were the janitors and the lunch lady. Last year, I dressed as our school's facilitator, Garrett was our school's principal, and Adam dressed as Dwight Schrute (we had doubles of everyone with our student teachers, our principal's name is Dwight). This year was awesome! We decided two days before our Halloween parties that we wanted to change our idea and be the Ghostbusters and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man! We were able to get matching jumpsuits from the meat plant that Garrett used to work at and Alece and I printed out all of the patches. We wore backpacks with vacuum hoses for our packs. The sad thing was that the student teachers we have now k

new who the ghostbusters are but not the Stay Puft Marshmallow man--they had never seen the movie. Half the students at the school thought we were janitors at first, but they were informed by others at the school that they were wrong. We had a fun time and our co-workers appreciate us.

In case you didn't catch on...I have a student teacher now. I met her this last Monday and she came to the class for the first time on Tuesday. I haven't had the chance to see her teach much of anything yet as she just observed the first day and then we had two crazy days in a row where we were lucky to get anything done. Her first formal observation is tomorrow and she is taking over most of the literacy lessons from here until she leave in December. We'll see how everything goes.