What is Black and Orange and Red all over?

We began the day with Calvin and Hobbes then quickly moved onto a Math time assignment.  The students were give a piece of paper with 18 blank clocks on it.  They had to then record 18 events in their day today. 
What time they: woke up, ate, left for school, arrived at school, started school, the start of recess, the end of recess, when lunch started, when lunch finished, what time the assembly starts, school ends, dinner time, trick-or-treat start, trick-or-treat ends, brush teeth / bath time, bed time and time they will fall asleep.  The assignment was to be done in pairs or in small groups to help each other.  I figured that they would be so involved with telling each other the information that they would forget it was a Math assignment.

After that they were to write a Halloween poem using the five senses.  The instructions were:
Write the word Halloween then strong images of things they might see, something they hear, something they smell, something they feel, something they taste, something they then see then repeat the word Halloween.  They were told not to write 'I see a...' rather they had to just write strong images.

We spent the rest of the morning trying to wrap up our ongoing paper-mache project.

Some students got caught up reading the newspaper instead of covering their desk with it.

A 99% finished boat

 Then we began the big task of mass paper-mache to finish off their ships.  We glued, ripped paper, attached masts and got the ships to a almost finished product.  After this they can take them home and add extra things like ladders and paper masts. 

The inevitable spills

 

After lunch the students went to choir until 1:20 to practice songs for the upcoming Remembrance day Assembly.  After that we went to the computer lab and wrote the Halloween poem out in Microsoft Word, adding pictures and a border to go along with their words.   A group of students worked on our next move and a group of students returned the pumpkins the students had created from the display in the library back to the classrooms to be taken home.  

This was followed by our celebration and awards ceremony. Four students in our class were awarded for their positive acceptance of other students, hard work and outstanding quality of work.   Well done KS,  ET,  JM and AP