If you have somehow missed what time of year it is all you have to do is walk into the Lower School to be reminded. We are bursting with Halloween spirit! The 8th grade parents 
spent hours decorating for Fall Festival and it looks AMAZING! There will be new games, Thai food generously provided by On Rice and a pumpkin decorating contest to name just a few of the fun things you can expect on Friday, October 28th at 6 p.m. Rumor has it there will also be a “Pie in the Face” raffle where students can buy tickets to win a chance to toss a pie at the face of some of their favorite people.
Part of the Fall Festival includes students being able to dress up in their Halloween costumes. Usually, I just throw on a Halloween themed t-shirt and call it good. This year I had to up my game and actually come up with a costume. Dressing up for Halloween is a much bigger deal here than at the preschool. How can I tell? Well because I get asked daily by students what I am planning on wearing. After a trip to Joann Fabrics, I did my best to come with something to pass muster. I loved seeing all the kids in their costumes on Friday, as I have been hearing about them for weeks. The Friday events went well! The K-12 Parade turned out great (tradition for Lower School), the prepped book themed pumpkins for Fall Harvest are impressive and the 3-4th Grades Thriller Dance never disappoints:
The 4th grade classes were supposed to go to a corn maze earlier in the week, but because of the wind and rain last weekend all the corn fell over and the field trip was canceled. What a bummer! Our students were so disappointed to miss this annual tradition. As “The Funistrator” I needed to come up with a fun activity for them to do instead. So I wrote a scavenger hunt for each class. I asked the 4th grade teachers what they were working on in class and wrote clues based on these topics (skeletal system, place values, Washington State, Non-Fiction, etc). I thought it would maybe take them an hour to finish if I was lucky. However, I am happy to say that after an hour and ½ they’re still going strong. You’ll have to ask one of them if they had as much fun as going to the corn maze.
