Halloween Happenings

By Lily Waxler

The Ghost of The Mad Hatter Tea Shop booth,

On October 31st, this year as in every year, Project Learn School (PLS) celebrated Halloween throughout the building. The Jr. High did a lot of  planning and made fun activities for the younger kids to do. One of the ways the school celebrated Halloween was with everyone making Halloween clay pots with Joan Fox. Joan helped everyone glaze their Halloween pots and on the day of Halloween a witch came in before school and  filled them with candy. No one in PLS knows who the witch is for sure, but there is a lot of talk among the students about who the witch could be.  Some people think it’s Joan, the art teacher, but this year she wasn’t even at PLS for Halloween.  For the kids who don’t celebrate Halloween, Joan helped them make fall themed clay pots, which also got filled with candy.

    Sean Leber, the math teacher at PLS, helped the younger Jr. High students put together a Halloween carnival; the other Jr. high teachers helped too. The carnival happened in the back yard and was a time for the kids to play different games that the Jr. High kids made. Some of the games this year were: Demon Dash, The Ghost Of The Mad Hatter Tea Shop, Face Painting and Wheel Of Fortune. At each booth kids tested their skills.  If they won, they got candy as a reward.

    While the younger Jr. High students were designing the carnival and Halloween pots, the 8th grade kids were working on the Haunted House. The Haunted House  is similar to the carnival; there’s something in it for all the kids to enjoy.  This year’s theme of the Haunted House was a masquerade ball.  The kids could go in with  the lights on or lights off, or optionally colored lights, all depending on how scared they wanted to be.

    Sylvie, a student at Project Learn School said, “I really liked the Haunted House. It’s my 3rd year at Project Learn School and, it was the 2nd time I went in the whole time, and it was just the right level of scariness. It was a little creepy, yet fun. The carnival was really good too.”

    The kids at Project Learn had a fun Halloween this year. The Haunted House was great; the carnival was fun and it had a lot of games for everyone at Project Learn to enjoy.