….a fun day at school but not so nice this evening for the trick or treaters
Day 5 of my Book Fair had to end on Hallowe’en. Getting dressed up, lots of candy, sick children and very excited children and last minute purchases made for a very exhausting day. Pretty much every child dresses up for Hallowe’en and so do most of the staff at our school. At the end of the day we have our parade where the entire student body walks through the school and then outside around the the property. Unfortunately it rained all day so we had indoor recesses and we tried to keep the children calm with a movie during lunch. The rain had let up a little bit towards the end of the day so we decided to brave it and take the parade outside.
My friend L and I led the school throughout the halls and then around the school. Every year we try to come up with new costumes and when I saw this idea on Pinterest I knew that it was the costume for us. It was also extremely easy to put together and we had fun making the kids and parents try to figure out what we were. We dressed up as the Black Eyed Peas. 
Here are a some pictures that I can share with you. The parents do an amazing job decorating the school and many classes took the time to decorate pumpkins.
It’s almost 8:00 and I’ve only had one knock on the door. Even my husband’s fabulous pumpkin isn’t attracting children to come up our walkway. Too much rain. I guess I’ll be taking a lot of candy back to school.
Mama Cormier 
Oh yeah… I like the way your husband carved that pumpkin. It’s got that Tim Burton look.
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I’ll let him know that you liked it. After last night’s disappointing turn out he was feeling very down because it took him a long time to carve it. It was a very large and thick pumpkin.
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That looks like so much fun! Sorry you didn’t get trick or treaters. We didn’t get as many this year but it didn’t rain. Maybe because it was Friday and people were doing other things?
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Nice to hear from you again. I’m glad you’re back. I was sad to hear that your school doesn’t recognize or celebrate Hallowe’en. We have some schools in Toronto that call it Orange and Black day. It all depends on the cultural and religious make-up of the school.
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Very true. Most kids at the school recognize Halloween and the love talking about it. I hate having to tell them that we have to call it a harvest festival and that no one is allowed to dress up. At least they still get to have fun parties in their classrooms, though.
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