*i want blogger to stop deleting the pictures i steal off the internet!*
after a day of extreme overstimulation,
this is what every single one of them will be doing for the next
48 hours--
so glad they have the weekend to detox this year.
another boy in overalls, button-up, and red hankerchief made everyone guess what he was, and he was horrified that no one's first guess was paleontologist! pioneer, my eyeball!
i was an egyptian, because, hey, i went to egypt, i have a dress--it follows. plus, when we were at the grimgoggles for a lovely sunday dinner this week, i took a dig through their dress-up box, where i found a shiny golden head... thing... and a bendy golden snake for my arm. five-year-old grady made sure i didn't "forget the asp! it's the most important!" i thought it was a pretty basic costume, but many of my kids were lost: "what the heck is a dip-shin?" was the most common response. eventually, i figured out that i just needed to close my eyes, stand up straight, and cross my arms over my chest, and they got the picture.
the kicker today, however, was when i was sorting through the skeletons one class made. they were pretty cute little pictures made from q-tips glued to black paper. their teacher then directed my attention to one boy's masterpiece, whose skeleton was just a little different than the rest: this [mostly] 2-D creation bore a single q-tip that jutted straight up at the viewer... from between the skeleton's legs. i looked quizzically at the teacher, who just said, "apparently, 'it's a robot.'"
as if that makes any more sense...
happy halloweenie, everybody!
4 comments:
I'm thrilled that I could help inspire your costume. I'm more thrilled that Grady had an asp for you, because it would have been quite tragic without that.
Okay, you can't talk about the dress you got from Egypt without some kind of picture so we can see what Egyptians REALLY wear and not their stereotypically white straight dress...
That last story about the skeletons is hilarious--what are his parents teaching him at home?;)
hahahahahaha i love it
I've personally grown to hate this stupid holiday, because my students eat so much candy beforehand that they act like they've snorted an entire kilo of cocaine. However, sometimes those cute costumes/stories make it a little easier.
I'm jealous you have the grimgoggles in your life too.
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