The Halloween Week

It seems that in the educational world, you never get a chance to recover from what happened yesterday, because all your energy is being spent on the next lesson, the next motivational technique, or on the next day, or even on helping each student succeed. The month of October has been filled with lots of learning, and lots of activities and this week feels like we have stuffed everything into a tiny pumpkin. My apologies, if there has been something that we have forgotten to finish or announce.

The students have been able to get out of homework on Monday, because the end of the day came too fast. I have forgotten to announce The Pumpkin Walk, even though it has been on my lesson plan in big bold letters, "Announce: Pumpkins Bring them on Friday!" The little activities that make it so important to a child, seem to have been pushed out of the way, that is one of the reasons I decided we needed a break, we are going on a mini-field trip tomorrow. We need to see real learning. We need to get out of the four walls that are filled with essential learning and a very dedicated curriculum, and place our focus on applying that learning to the real world.

Our walking FieldTrip will be about a mile long (approximately 1:40-2:20 p.m.), as we walk around Bear River City, checking on a couple of Geocaches.  So what is Geocaching, it is a sport that everyone and anyone can do. Geocaching is a real world outdoor treasure hunting game. Here is an explanation found on the www.geocaching.com website:



So is it the real world? Well it will be the start to a whirlwind of fun activities on Friday, which for your information looks like this:
8:10 - Morning work
8:30 - Assembly
P.E. will be canceled again (Soccer - with a real game)
Recess
10:00 - Spelling Test, and Reading Test
10:30 - Reading Buddies
11:00 - Finish Tests, and "Author's Chair"
Lunch
12:15 - Read Aloud (I have to finish the book I have been reading so we can start a new one on Monday).
12:30 - Costume Parade (with some twist to the traditional route) Best place to view the students will be outside along the sidewalks.
Break
1:40 - Halloween Party (If you would like to contribute send a treat), I plan on doing some games with them, taking their pictures with their wonderful costumes and in general having fun with the students. There will also be some time to take their pumpkins out for the Pumpkin Walk.

“It’s the way you ride the trail that counts.” - Roy Rogers