Did I ever tell you....

Just a moment of reminiscing...I love October!!!  My favorite month it is!!!  The weather is starting to cool off and the leaves on trees are beautiful colors.  I makes me feel great and ready for a fresh start.  I also love love LOVE Halloween!!!  Why you ask?  Well lots of reasons....One of the biggest reasons is that it was Steve and Shar's favorite time of the year too.  I remember going over to their house on Halloween night after trick-or-treating and having a party with all the junk food we could want and of course the old black and white Halloween movies!  I think that started my love affair with October and Halloween!  Good times...

Another reason I like it is because it is just plain fun!  I love making pumpkin sugar cookies and decorating them to look like jack-o-lanterns!  I love making all the fun food that we eat. 

I also love having fun with my students.  Of all the holidays we talk about in our class, I have the most fun with this one.  Right now we are reading The Witches by Roald Dahl.  It is one of my favorite books and I absolutely love reading it out loud!  Talking like the Grand High Witch is entertaining to both the students and myself.  We also start talking more about characterization while we are reading this book.  We analyze the characters and their different traits.  It also gets them thinking about Halloween stories!  Like many of you know, I love to write and getting my kids to have that same love for writing stories is fun for me! 

I wish it was October all year round!!!  I <3 it!!!!