Halloween

I just have to blog about Halloween! It is Sunday, you know. Actually, I am not very fond of Halloween. I had a couple of bad experiences as a child and I have been damaged for life. I don't even remember my costumes. Well, once I was a hobo (I know that from pictures). Do you like Halloween? In a comment to my blog tell me if you like Halloween and your favorite costume that you wore.

Now, I am all for Halloween parties. They can be fun and in today's society, very safe. I do remember my first boy/girl party in the sixth grade - it was a Halloween party. Yup, it took me that long to go to a mixed party where there weren't any adults just hanging around. We bobbed for apples and had a race to see who could eat a donut hanging from a string the fastest (you were laying on your back on the ground with the donut swinging above you). As I remember, I was pretty good at both games. I was a master at bobbing for apples - dive in fast pushing the apple to the bottom and taking a big bite! Now I wouldn't want to get my hair wet :-)

In your blog today, you also need to talk about Halloween. I am hoping you all think you are too old to go trick or treating...because you are! What plans do you have for Sunday? A party or two? Do you have a favorite memory from Halloween? What is the best candy to get in your Halloween bag? Is it chocolate? It always was for me, because no one gave chocolate because it was more expensive. I use to hide my candy because my brother would eat it. Then I would forget about it and have to throw it away. Such a waste! I use to get a popcorn ball from a neighbor friend. No way can you get anything these days that isn't wrapped when you buy it. Did you hear about the time someone put razor blades in caramel apples? We don't get those in Halloween bags anymore either.

Sure hope you have a great weekend, whatever you have planned. Mine will be quiet as I turn off the lights and hide upstairs while the kiddies run by my house trick or treating. I am a true Halloween Scrooge!!

What to blog about...hmmmm!

I am trying to blog every other week with something for you to blog about. But...right now I am at a loss for what to blog about. I just finished parent-teacher conferences! Yea! Glad those are over. Thank you to all parents who came by to see me. Not too many!

So as I was sitting in the cold cafeteria, what were you doing? Did you just blow off the day and say hey, the weather is great I am out of here? In a comment to my blog, let me know what you did Thursday afternoon as I dutifully waited for parents to arrive.

In your blog today, tell me your feelings about parent-teacher conferences. The move these days is to go to conferences that are actually run by the student. This might work at the elementary level, but kind of difficult at our level. I usually like it better if the kid isn't there, but research says that it is a much better conference if the student tells their parent (in front of the teacher) how they are doing in the class. The only benefit I see is that all those notes that parents jot down on a small piece of paper wouldn't be necessary and the student probably would understand better what their parent was trying to tell them. So, should we have students required to come? Would you come? I, personally, find parent-teacher conferences grueling and nerve racking. But I am always glad to see who comes by my way. I wish lots more parents would be involved in their child(ren)'s education and stop on by conferences. Do you think all parents should come to conferences? Did your parents stop by?

On another item...you MUST use correct spelling in your blogs. You know those words that get underlined in red??? Yup, they are misspelled. Run spell check or right click on them!! Also, when you use the work "I", it is ALWAYS capitalized! Try it, you will like it. Have a great day blogging and then it is off to Photoshop. Gotta love Photoshop!!!!