I wish you could be in my classroom today. We’ve been laughing our heads off at Boo…and I MEAN IT!, by Barbara Park, with its “5 scary secrets that Paulie Allen Puffer told me by Junie B. Jones”:
1.) Real monsters and witches go trick or treating on halloween. Only they don’t even wear costumes. On account of everybody thinks they’re already dressed up.
BUT THEY’RE NOT! THEY ARE WEARING THEIR REAL ACTUAL FACE AND CLOTHES!
2.) Do not carve pointy sharp teeth in your pumpkin. Or it will roll into your room while you are sleeping and eat your feet.
3.) Bats like to land on your head and live in your hair.
4.) Black witch cats can claw you into shreddle.
5.) Candy corn isn’t really corn.
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But, that’s not all. The Great Pumpkin, of Linus fame, has visited us every day this week. Into our Boo Boxes he has deposited a glow-in-the-dark spider ring, an origami bookmark, a Halloween eraser, and later today he will bring those little tubs of Play-Doh which come in orange, green, white or black. (You get what you get, and you don’t have a fit.)
So, have a very Happy Halloween. And if you see the Great Pumpkin, have him save some m&m’s for me. Preferrably peanut.
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How fun! I bet your kids are cranked up!
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The idea of having the Great Pumpkin stop by is a really neat idea. I love it!!!
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Aw, you teachers are not supposed to be having so much fun!
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#1 is probably true, #3 is DEFINITELY true, #5 is only true if you want it to be, I take no firm stance on #2 and #4, and of COURSE peanut. That makes them practically a food group.
Happy Halloween!
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Sounds like fun! Happy Halloween!!
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sounds like a good time was had by all.
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Sounds like fun. Reminds me of my days in the classroom. I'm looking forward to seeing the little guys who come by tonight for their treats.
I only see a red x where your photos should be. 😦
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Sounds like such a fun day!
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Junie B. Jones–a fave of my kids!
Happy Halloween!!
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Halloween is a fun time at that age. Thanks for sharing.
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What do you mean, candy corn isn't corn? It isn't? I've used it as a vegetable for years!
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I hope you had a very healthy serving last night, Linda! And let's remind my mother that if it's yellow and sweet it must be corn. 😉
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I guess it's sort of silly, but I seem to love the holidays as much as the kids.
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She never fails to crack me up! Have you read any of Barbara Park's other books, though? Mick Harte Was Here made me cry. Literally.
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Much like yours was, except you have sweet Greyson to take trick or treating.
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I fixes it, I hope, Bev. So good to see you here.
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Yeah, but we missed your daughter. Who's now probably too old for these shenanigans.
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And since it's the next day, Happy November!
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Audrey, I love how you responded to each if Junie's points, and verified the worth of peanut m&m's. 😉
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I'm waiting for the day when Halloween and Christmas are national test days! If we can't have fun now, we never will. xo
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The kids are half convinced he's real…
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They'd be even more so if we still held the costume parade. Headache City, believe me.
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I'd love to be in your classroom, no, not as a fly on the wall, but a student. What fun I'd have … all the interesting reading, amusing exchanges and I'm sure creative activities… I wouldn't even know I'm learning. And BTW, I so look forward to your Anna K. wrap-up post come Nov. 15
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I see it. I see it. Thans.
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I wish you'd been my teacher in school! This all sounds and looks like so much fun!
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