-why do you celebrate Halloween?
-why do you wear suits on Halloween to celebrate it?
-why are there dragons and scary bats on Halloween?
-if dragons can fight as hard as they can on Halloween or can they hide under pumpkins so no witches get them
What We Did:
-Poem
Jack-O-Lantern
Anonymous
Jack-o-lantern, Jack-o-lantern,
You are such a funny sight.
As you sit there by the window,
Looking out into the night.
You were once a sturdy pumpkin,
growing on a curly vine.
Now you are a Jack-o-lantern,
See your night lights shine.
-Song
Five Little Pumpkins
Anonymous
Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate
The first one said, "Oh my it's getting late"
The second one said, "There's witches in the air"
The third one said, "I don't care"
The fourth one said, "Let's run and run and run"
The fifth one said, "I'm ready for some fun!"
Along came the wind and blew out the lights
And the five little pumpkins rolled out of sight.
Writing-
-the kids drew the pictures to help them memorize the poem and song
-the kids wrote stories, I gave them the white board to draw while I typed. Drawing it helped them to organize and write more details in their stories, both of them kept going and going, I loved it, but tried to keep Ezra focused on the storyline, Noah's story was mostly bad guys killing good guys and I stopped typing after a while
-we talked about story structure
*he drew pictures of the characters: jack-o-lantern, ghost, vampire, haunted house with wheels where the bad characters live, kids are trick or treating
*conflict- the pumpkin steals a boy, the girl was walking and didn't notice he got stolen, she went home and told her mom that a pumpkin stealed them, they almost cooked him for dinner
*then he ran as fast as he can, but couldn't get out, the door was locked and he couldn't push the walls out, the pumpkin put him inside, but he broke the pumpkin, fell off the roof and ran away as fast as he could, but another pumpkin got him.
*resolution- the boy got away from the mean guys, he went to another pumpkin who happened to be his sister, he asked her what her name was, she said, you know me I'm your sister, lightning struck all of the mean guys, the wheels fell off the house, the lightning almost struck a kid, but he got away
Double Scariest Halloween
By Ezra
Once there was a jack-o-lantern, a vampire and a ghost. They lived in a haunted house. The house had scratches on the door, a tornado for the doorknocker, and wheels on the bottom. It had haunted stuff inside, like a big pumpkin. Bigger than you'd ever think. They cooked kids in the pumpkin with lightning.
There was a boy and a girl out trick-or-treating. The boy's name is Loverschef and he was a spaghetti chef for Halloween. The girl's name is Loversbaker. She was a baker for Halloween.
Then scariest wolf ever took their trick-or-treating bags away and they had to hold their candy. Then they found the wolf and he was asleep, so they got their bags back. They found out it was a Halloween wolf. Then they noticed that the wolf had the sharpest teeth ever. He was the leader of the Halloween wolves. Then ran away to their house, but they noticed that their mom and dad weren't home.
The jack-o-latern came and kidnapped Loverschef and Loversbaker and took them to the haunted house. The jack-o-lantern, the ghost and the vampire were going to cook them in the big pumpkin. There was a huge x on pumpkin. They tried to escape because they thought the x meant cook the kids, but it actually meant don't cook the kids.
Loverschef was three or four years old, but he still had a sharp sword. He chopped a big circle in the house that they could fit through. They escaped and ran home. This time their mom was home.
Lightning struck the bad guys, not the good guys. It did strike the good guy's roof off, but it didn't hurt them. That was the end of the bad guys.
Next Halloween there were no bad guys, so they didn't celebrate Halloween. People just brought candy to their house.
Good Guy Bad Guy
By Noah
There was a bad guy. He had legs, a head, and a body. The bad guy wanted to be mean, but a bear came to eat the bad guy. The good guy got the bear. Another big bad guy had a big body and he went trick-or-treating and got candy. People were scared of them.
A bear came with a little head and a big body. The bear went trick-or-treating. He opened a wrapper and ate the candy for dessert after he ate all his dinner. The bad guy said "Don't eat that we have to say a prayer." Then he said, "It's time to eat a treat." The little baby bad guy cried. The good guy said, "Don't kill a bear." The daddy bad guy killed the bear. The bear said, "Roar." The good guy said, "I'll eat you up."
Another good guy had a big sword. They found the horses and then he killed the bad
guys. The bad guys were mean. The bears were bad guys.
-made a haunted house- cut out bats and ghosts to hang from the ceiling,
ideas- potions with dry ice telling a scary story, spider room with spray bottle, eyeballs, brains, ice hand, spaghetti, scary music
Haunted House
scene lights on and off, scary music, leader has a flashlight
Monster Cemetery
1. Monster Cemetary- Ezra is turning lights on and off, Livi is at the witch table Mom: "walk past the monster cemetary" Noah jumps out of a box and says "BOO!!!!!!" then the lights stay off
Witch Table
2. Witch Table- Mom-"come over to the witch's table" Livi: "Hi, I'm the witch. I'm going to make a potion for you. Choose any cup. If you choose the orange one the spider will spray you." Livi pours, if he chose orange Ezra sprays him. He drinks the potion. Then Livi says, "You just drank the pig potion, You're going to turn into a pig in a week."
Giant Spider
3. Spider Web- Mom- "Here is the giant spider's web. Be careful, sometimes the spider spits poison." Ezra sprays dad with water.
Monster Parts
4. Monster Parts - Mom- "Come into the Monster's house. Come and feel the dead monster's eyeballs, brains, and hand." Ezra - "Feel the monster's eyeballs, feel the monster's brains, feel the monster's hand."
Monster Cupcakes
We had fun making monster cupcakes!
We Learned
-jack-o-lanterns were put in windows to keep the evil spirits away, because they thought the dead people were going to come visit them
-you say trick-or-treat because that means if you don't give me candy then I'll play a trick on you
-wore scary masks to keep the evil spirits away
-they wanted the good spirits (their ancestors) to come visit them
-it was a night to honor their ancestors
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