Sturat and Raeleigh's elementary school had a variation on Halloween. Each classroom was assigned a country. Then there was time spent during the last month learning about the country assigned to your class. For the parade on Halloween, the students were asked to dress up as something from their country. As soon as Stuart found out the country assigned to his class was China, he had a costume in mind. He wanted to be a chineese dragon. His teacher and I looked all over for a costume. Finally we decided to go with a cardboard dragon head and a piece of material for the body. Stuart loved painting the dragon head. Two of his classmates were the body. They had a great time and looked so awesome in the parade.
Raeleigh's class studied South Africa. They learned about the animals there. So the week of Halloween, each student got to pick an animal they want to be and make a mask. Raeleigh was happy with her choice as a monkey. She loved making her mask. On Halloween day, she wore her brown pants and shirt inside out so that the pictures would not show and ruin her monkey costume!Halloween night we still had sick kids. Morgan and Jordan stayed home. Samantha babysat for a family and then went to a party.
Patrick took money for parking at the football game and they watched the game. So Craig, Stuart, Raeleigh and I went to dinner with the Smiths. Afterward we went to the mall for trick-or-treating. For trick-or-treating Stuart was spiderman, Raeleigh was a monkey princess (she also wore her vampire teeth). They were both happy to trick-or-treat with their cousin, Austin. It was a fun day/evening!
