T R I C K  -  O R  -  T R E A T

May your HALLOWEEN be filled with Witches, Goblins, Vampires with blood, haunted houses, and all the other scary sites and sounds HALLOWEEN has to offer.  All the thrilling costumes to see and guess who is beneath each one.  Then of course the biggest surprise wait what could it be

C A N D Y of course!!! ENJOY!!!!

S P O O K Y,  C R E E P Y,  S C A R E Y!!!!!

Students love when you you change things in the slightest way--they think it is so COOL!!!  So at Halloween there are so many opportunities to do that.  I love to have them bring in a flashlight (not conveying the reason why) and letting them read with the lights out using their flashlights.  Then of course I have to let them have the fun of just shining them all over the room (not on anyone's face) and that will be the icing on the cake.

CREATIVE      WRITING

Halloween is such a great time to incorporate so many academic skills into your curriculum.  Using this one for a creative writing assignment.  The students always seem to love to write stories associated with Halloween.   They seem to find it easy to relate to characters, settings, a problem and solution.  If you have an Art Teacher that is willing to work with the classroom teachers this is a great opportunity for the students to also paint a scene from their story.  Then it really becomes exciting for the students to see a scene from their story become alive on paper.

B  I  R  T  H  D  A  Y  S

Some children will start talking about their Birthday months before  it even occurs and others won't even say anything until you hear, "yesterday was my Birthday."  I always acknowledge all of their Birthdays by giving them a card and we all sing Happy Birthday.  I have 6 items that a Birthday Person can choose from to do on their Special Day such as:  be line leader, pass out the papers, sit in the special chair, no homework pass, choose the book to be read to the class that day, deliver lunch count and attendance to the office.  They love having that freedom of making their own choice.

A W E S O M E

You are AWESOME, you look AWESOME, your work is AWESOME, your shirt is AWESOME, that answer is AWESOME, this class is AWESOME!!!!! Show your students how much you appreciate and care for them.  A Teacher/Tutor who shows these attributes will instill in their students that their instructor really cares for them and wants them to succeed.

EVERYONE

Your child can BE all of the above mentioned words.  It is up to us as teachers and parents to make sure that we build their self-esteem up.  Not everything is going to be easy for everyone, that is why we are there to guide and reassure them that we will help them understand it.  They might not be the creative one when it comes to art but when they have a story to write they hit it out of the ballpark.  Kind and thankful that is something that should be taught at a very young age.  To be able to share and say thank you to people should be something that is very easy to do by the time they come to Elementary School.  Smile we should smile a lot and that makes everyone HAPPY!!!

THE LOSS OF A RELATIVE

OR CLOSE FRIEND

This can be a very hard topic to discuss with your child especially if they were very close to the person.  Any questions they have you should answer truthfully.  Grandma just couldn't breathe on her own anymore and she is resting peacefully up in heaven with Grandpa.  We have all those special pictures of her and memories to keep.  Make them feel as comfortable as possible telling them that if anything is bothering them to come and discuss it with Mommy and Daddy.