November 2, 2016 at 4:11 p.m.
Crescent students celebrate Halloween
Crescent students celebrate Halloween
By Kayla Thomason-
The students dressed in their trick-or-treating attire. Costumes ranged from a three-tiered-cake to a unicorn, a clown, Pokémon characters, frogs and more. Each class paraded around the gym, showing off their costumes to the rest of the school.
Children then sat quietly as they learned about acceptance while watching "Spookly the Square Pumpkin."
A staff member dressed as a witch in a sparkly cape led the interactive song "Witches' Brew" where the students mimicked making a potion in a cauldron.
"I loved the events," said Ryan Copple, a second-grader dressed as a military man.
Copple said he enjoyed everything about the event.
"It was awesome," he said. "I loved that we got to watch 'Spookly the Pumpkin.'"
Alexis Smith, also a second-grader, came dressed as a frog "because it's an easy costume and frogs are just super cute to me," she said.
"My favorite part of the event was seeing all my friends and other people's good costumes," she added.
This is the first time "in recent memory" the school held a costume parade, said teacher Tina Vannatter.
"(The students were) so excited, they were talking about it all day, the beginning of last week all the way through last week," she said.
Vannatter noted the students typically have a hard time concentrating on Halloween so spending a bit of the afternoon celebrating and sneaking in some learning seemed like a good idea.
"We have activities, most of them are learning activities that stretch their minds a little bit but are still fun," she said. "Our puzzles are tangrams so they have to really think about which way it's going to go and we have games with spinners but they have to do subtraction to move their piece."
She was pleased to see the students and staff enjoying the afternoon.
"We have the greatest staff and they were totally on board even though it was one more thing on a crazy day," she said. "They were all like 'You know what, this could be a really good thing, a really fun thing for the kids.'"
The event was sponsored on by the Celebration Committee/PLC (Professional Learning Community).
Kayla Breese may be reached at kayla@rivernewsonline.com.
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