Book Character and Election Day

The end of October was a busy time! On Halloween, Ms. Denise takes each class on a hayride around campus. Always making a special stop at the pumpkin patch that the middle schoolers grew. With the weather this year, the hayride took place the day before Halloween. On Halloween, lower school students come to school dressed as a book character. Each student presents to the rest of lower school and an audience of parents. Students had to walk onto the stage and speak into the microphone to introduce themselves, name their character, state the book title and author, and tell about their favorite part of the book. It is always so much fun to see all of the characters come to life. After book character day presentations the class had a fun day playing games and different activities.

The first full week of November has proven to be eventful. With the national elections taking place, lower school student had a vote too. The first through fourth graders for on The Best Things in Life. It was a neat experience to have the “booths” set up and each child take a turn to individually vote for their choices. We were able to discuss that it’s an anonymous process and that they would have to wait to find out the results. After every ballot was tallied it was put in a chart for the student to view. When we discussed the result we talked about greater and less than and there were a couple of ties to sort out. It was an exciting way to involve the students and let them have a role in such an important process.

Until next time!!

Mrs. Claire