halloween madness

Can you believe that it is November 1st? Wow, time is really starting to fly by. What's funny is that I feel like the days are so long sometimes, but the weeks are fast. It's that weird timey-wimey type stuff that I don't even bother trying to understand.

But, because today is November 1, that means it was Halloween yesterday! Now, I quite enjoy Halloween (even though, I freely admit, I'm not a fan of dressing up) and all of the fun traditions that go with it. Since SSBS is a bilingual school and most of the expat teachers are Americans, the school likes to have Halloween celebrations. China doesn't really celebrate Halloween, but it is easier to find Halloween things in Shanghai because of the high population of expats. So on Friday, we had our Halloween celebration: the kids and teachers came in costumes, there was candy, an attempt at trick-or-treating, and a charity fair.

First, the costumes.

Look at these elaborate princess dresses. It is amazing they fit in the desks in the morning! There were quite a few Disney princesses as well, the most popular being Elsa, of course.

Minions! Luna, the girl on the right, was a Minion and a witch. There were even more Minions later during the afternoon Charity fair. 

My homeroom superheroes. 

The princesses.

My more random assortment of costumes: Harry Potter, a bat, GI Joe, Minnie Mouse, and a soldier.

A bat/devil combo (I couldn't really decide what his costume was), a spider, and 3 witches. 

This is Ms. Gioia, one of the other first grade expat teachers. She was a very fantastic Mary Poppins.

Pirates!!

A fireman, Captain America (he has a cape, you couldn't really tell), and a Power Ranger.

I told my kids that my cardigan was an invisibility cloak, but it was being finnicky (sp?). Ms. Cai, my co-teacher, was a pumpkin.

Ms. Carli is another first grade expat teacher. She is so legit on Halloween!

Of course there were quite a few other photos taken that morning:

This is my English S+ class. I just had to take a picture, they were so cute. 

Some of my homeroom kids. I love that in every picture we took, Noelle (the one in the Harry Potter costume), always needed her wand and a serious look on her face.

She let me borrow her glasses for all of 35 seconds.

This isn't a great picture, but we took the kids trick-or-treating to some classrooms in the school. Luckily it was a short event because it was madness! All 6 of the first grade classes were trick-or-treating, half of the kids were dropping the candy, and the classrooms were a one-way type of situation. It was very entertaining. 

Overall, the Halloween celebrations went well. We have a ton of leftover candy in the classroom, which we will inevitably use for prizes throughout the rest of the semester and into next, most likely. Seriously, we have sooooo much left. 

Happy Halloween!