We had such a FANTASTIC time celebrating the Quebec “Carnaval” at our own school!  Bonhomme Carnaval even showed up himself!   We did lots of fun activities (did you know that there are over 200 activities at the real Carnaval?) like “freeze dancing”, snowball toss, curling, and ice block building… of course ours had to be “simulated” because it just isn’t that cold here!  The final activity was a delicious treat of ice cream and maple syrup!  Yum!

 

The “Freeze Dancing” was REALLY fun!

 

What was YOUR favourite activity?

 

One of the world’s most famous cartoon characters is having a birthday on Nov. 18th!

Yes, it’s MICKEY MOUSE!

Mickey’s debut is accredited to his starring role in the Walt Disney cartoon “Steamboat Willie“.

 

 

Here’s a “Happy Birthday, Mickey” cartoon to enjoy.

 

 

Mickey Mouse was
“born” in 1928!

How old is he now?

 

 

 

What a lot of fun activities led up to Hallowe’en at school!  We had our very own “pumpkin patch” in Nestor Park, and everyone got a pumpkin to take home!  A huge THANKS goes to our wonderful PAC for setting it all up for all our Primary students to enjoy!

 

 

Then Mrs. B. brought in 6 “table pumpkins” so that we could do some “pumpkin math“.  We compared all sorts of measurements, like… the circumference of our pumpkins compared to our heads, and the number of ribs on our pumpkins compared to a human being!

Next we scooped those goopy pumpkins and use 10 frame egg carton counters to count up all the seeds.  All together, we had 2605!  Wow! That’s a lot!  Then we got to decide on what kind of Jack 0’Lantern faces they should have.  Some of us were able to agree on a face, but others ended up with 4 faces!

Hallowe’en Day was FRIGHTFULLY FUN!  We went to different classrooms in the morning, for Hallowe’en activities and we also went to the gym for special races put on by the PAC.  (Mr. Della Vedova was there… he was dressed up like CHICKEN LITTLE and kept worrying that the sky was falling!  Poor Mr. DV!

Finally we got to the Hallowe’en Parade and party in the afternoon.  We got to see everyone’s costume in the gym, because it was raining outside.  Then we headed back to the classroom to make our Witches’ Brew… oooohhhhh, YUCK… there was Wizard Water #14, Bat’s Blood, Slimy Worms, hopping toads and MORE!  (Shhhh… don’t tell anyone that it was actually yummy!)  We brought party foods in the Canada Food Guide Groups and dressed them up as witches’ fingers, eyeballs, skeletons, and other scary things.  (Shhhh again… they were yummy too!)

At the end of the party there were so many individual goodie bags that we really didn’t need to go trick-or-treating (but we did anyway).  The only thing we forgot was to light our Jack o’Lanterns, so you’ll have to watch to the end of the Slide Show to see how they looked.

 

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What a great Hallowe’en!

What was YOUR favorite part?

What an AWE-SOME WICKED day!  We did special Hallowe’en activities in different classrooms and burned off a LOT of energy in the gym rolling pumpkins and doing other fun races!  Then we had our traditional Hallowe’en parade after lunch.  The rain didn’t stop us… we just paraded through the halls and around the gym instead of going outside.  The Hallowe’en party was SPOOK-A-LICIOUS!  Most students took a lot of time and effort to decorate their plates and make scary foods from the Canada Food Guide.  We had owl’s eyes and witches’ fingers and goblin brains and other really unique dishes!  Mrs. BOO-khout made a HORRIBLE WITCHES’ BREW (that means DELICIOUS in Witch language!).  Everyone had to call out BLECH! and NASTY! as the ingrediants were added… bat’s blood, and hopping toads and stuff like that!  The slimy worms got voted to be the yuckiest ingrediant!  We listened to Hallowe’en songs while we enjoyed our goodies.  The skeleton puzzle candy was fun to arrange, and then EAT!  A special thanks to students Liza and Melissa for making goody bags for the whole class!  Mrs. BOO-hout appreciated how everyone helped with the clean-up.

 

 

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Happy Hallowe’en!

 

 

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What was YOUR favourite
part of the day?