Hello! Let me tell you about Halloween.
In a word: it was great. Our school let
us put on a haunted house for the students. They trusted us with
their ELA time, ensuring every kid would get a chance to go through.
It was a huge behavior initiative, and was wonderful because we got a
chance to do something for these students that was just for their
entertainment. It was just for them to have fun and be kids.
The haunted house was amazing. We used
the extra City Year room, a normal classroom sized space, and turned
it into a maze with the scariest things lurking around corners. We
created floor to ceiling walls out of garbage bags, and hung danger
signs. We dressed up (woah – City Year not in uniform! Too scary!)
and put paint on our faces. We looked dead. It was all very slasher
horror film.
The students arrived with their English
classes. Lined up outside, we fed them a tale of mad scientists,
experiments gone wrong, and abandoned hospitals.
