Every year, for around eighteen years, at Project Learn School (PLS) there are a bunch of Halloween festivities run by the Jr. High students on Halloween. This year Hurricane Sandy delayed the celebrations until the Friday after Halloween. Even though it was two days later, the kids still made sure it was as much fun as ever.
The 6th and 7th graders do a carnival with games and prizes which Liz Ben-Yaacov, the Jr. High math and grammar teacher supervises. At each booths they give out some kind of prize like pencils, candy, and snacks like pretzels and chips. This year there were about seven booths; some of them were: K and N Course of Terror... If You Dare, run by Nasya Howard and Kennedy Alstin-Lucky where you raced someone else in a series of obstacles---like running through tires and throwing a ball through a hula-hoop. Barbies Beauty Boo-tique, run by Zoe Gold and Surya Bromley was a booth where you could get your face painted or get your hair colored with colored hairspray. Ball of Fire, run by Jimmy Murphy and Jhakur Hall was a game where you threw a ball at stacked cups and tried to knock them down.
The 8th grade at PLS is always in charge of making a haunted house for the rest of the school to go through with help from Liam Gallagher, it happens in one of the classrooms that the teachers generously let the eighth grade use for the week of the haunted house. This year the theme was a haunted circus. Emma Dudnick, one of the students involved in the Haunted House said, “I enjoyed working on the Haunted House and coming up with the ideas. I think it turned out well and everyone liked it and everyone was scared.” One of the challenges the 8th graders have each year is making the Haunted House experience scary enough for the older kids but not too scary for the younger kids. This year’s Haunted House was just right. Nasya howard a seventh grader at PLS said that “The haunted house was really scary this year. My favorite part was when Matthew Wilson, one of the eighth graders, dressed as a evil clown jumped out of a tunnel that they made from the back staircase and started screaming at us.” Another thing that is hard is to decide on a good idea for the Haunted House. “We all brainstormed ideas and some people wanted to be certain parts like the villain or the clown,” said Emma, “ a lot of it revolved around our idea for the tunnel.”
“The Halloween Festivities were fun. I liked the Haunted House and thought it was well done!” Zack Waxler, a seventh grader at PLS, said when asked how he thought the day went.
The 6th and 7th graders do a carnival with games and prizes which Liz Ben-Yaacov, the Jr. High math and grammar teacher supervises. At each booths they give out some kind of prize like pencils, candy, and snacks like pretzels and chips. This year there were about seven booths; some of them were: K and N Course of Terror... If You Dare, run by Nasya Howard and Kennedy Alstin-Lucky where you raced someone else in a series of obstacles---like running through tires and throwing a ball through a hula-hoop. Barbies Beauty Boo-tique, run by Zoe Gold and Surya Bromley was a booth where you could get your face painted or get your hair colored with colored hairspray. Ball of Fire, run by Jimmy Murphy and Jhakur Hall was a game where you threw a ball at stacked cups and tried to knock them down.
The 8th grade at PLS is always in charge of making a haunted house for the rest of the school to go through with help from Liam Gallagher, it happens in one of the classrooms that the teachers generously let the eighth grade use for the week of the haunted house. This year the theme was a haunted circus. Emma Dudnick, one of the students involved in the Haunted House said, “I enjoyed working on the Haunted House and coming up with the ideas. I think it turned out well and everyone liked it and everyone was scared.” One of the challenges the 8th graders have each year is making the Haunted House experience scary enough for the older kids but not too scary for the younger kids. This year’s Haunted House was just right. Nasya howard a seventh grader at PLS said that “The haunted house was really scary this year. My favorite part was when Matthew Wilson, one of the eighth graders, dressed as a evil clown jumped out of a tunnel that they made from the back staircase and started screaming at us.” Another thing that is hard is to decide on a good idea for the Haunted House. “We all brainstormed ideas and some people wanted to be certain parts like the villain or the clown,” said Emma, “ a lot of it revolved around our idea for the tunnel.”
“The Halloween Festivities were fun. I liked the Haunted House and thought it was well done!” Zack Waxler, a seventh grader at PLS, said when asked how he thought the day went.
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