Mrs. Salmon's Third Grade!: Mrs. Salmon's Haunted Classroom!

Mrs. Salmon's Haunted Classroom...
Enter at Your Own Risk!

Friday we celebrated Halloween and a HUGE THANK YOU to all of the parents for all the donated supplies and materials for making our Halloween so special. However, the party would not have been as wonderful without all the time and effort Mrs. Smith (Clive's Mom) put into reaching out to all the parents, juggling getting all the supplies and spending her entire Friday afternoon setting the classroom up to be the perfect spooky atmosphere for the kids' surprise! Kudos to Mrs. Smith!

Check out the transformation of Mrs. Salmon's room...from sporadic decortating over two weeks to a massive decorating session Thursday night and Mrs. Smith's big help Friday afternoon our room became a Hanuted Classroom!

Over sized Spiders took over our room!

Mrs. Salmon made sure to black out the windows so there was no escape!

Enter if You Dare....

We kicked the day off with a visit from Junior Achievement, followed by our typical Friday vocabulary and spelling test - with a Halloween twist.

Here the kids decided to give our Junior Achievement visitors a little Halloween scare.

Then we enjoyed the wonderful Halloween parade and hamming it up for all the parents in the church. What a shy bunch, right? :)

Preparing for their debut at the Halloween Parade!

Such amazing costumes!

Happy Halloween!

Posing for Pictures!

After a lunch with Halloween cupcakes from Katie Walsh we had a special Halloween Reading Buddies session with Ms. Cahill's kindergartners. Instead of reading, writing and discussing their books as a Halloween surprise the kids brainstormed and wrote their very own spooky or funny Halloween story using whatever character they and their kindergarten buddy were dressed as. The stories will be presented to their reading buddies during our next Friday get together!

And finally as a triumphant end to our Halloween Friday, the kids embarked on a scary journey into Mrs. Salmon's Haunted Classroom. From entering the dark room with lightning striking and thunder booming, with creepy music playing in the background the kids got a chance to look around...

Entering the completely decorated
haunted classroom for the first time...

The shocked looks were priceless!

After the initial surprise at entering the room the kids had to dig up all their bravery and stick their hands in what I warned them would surely "turn their stomaches and was not for the weak-hearted." With eyes closed and only using their sense of touch the kids took turns feeling each of Mrs. Salmon's creepy gooey cauldrons of gross and then had to go back to their writing journals and write with details and vocabulary words everything they felt - and take a guess as to what it was! Check out their faces, I could not have posed them better!!

I did not make them nervous enough they dove right in!

Lupin the Werewolf from Harry Potter (Oscar) and the Terminator Cop (Clive)
reacting to the nastiness they were feeling!

Even a Roman goddess couldn't hide the fact that she was grossed out!
And Alex Russo from Wizards of Waverly Place (Maddie) reaching for the wipes!

I was so impressed at the great descriptions they gave for what they felt!

Avatar (Kaya) seems unafraid while
Flash (Lance) in the background looks a little nervous

The Cowgirl (Mary) apparently never had to deal with this nasty before
and even Athena (Katie), goddess of war no-less, was squeamish
while the Clone (Trent) seems like he is ok with everything.

The Flash (Lance) and Terminator Cop (Clive) tackling the Number 7 cauldron for a second time, this was a popular gross one (canned of peeled tomatoes aka hearts!)!