Last night was the annual Halloween Costume Dance at our school. Although the students really enjoy it, for the obvious reason of they don't have study hall and they get to stay up later, I still feel as if the teachers enjoyed it more. While our students throw on some bizarre clothes and paint their faces a little, the teachers really commit to the characters of their costumes.
Last year I made the obvious choice of being a graphing calculator. This was an excellent choice because I was then able to dance like the sine graph all night and my fellow math nerd, Kate, would push my buttons and I could just yell out numbers. It was great. I still have the cardboard cutout hanging in my classroom and like to teach in it sometimes.
This year however, we decided to make more of an effort to tell a story with our costumes. The story we chose: the three blind mice and the butchers wife. An obvious choice since there are four of us girls that are good friends from last year, plus we figured the kids wouldn't get it so it would be funny.
True to form, the students thought we were the mice from Shrek because they have never heard the three blind mice nursery rhyme before. It was great to see them react to our butchers wife, Nichole, as well because they just thought she was crazy (we did make her carry around a fake butchers knife and three chopped-off mice tails complete with fake blood on them).
Us teachers led the Cupid Shuffle, did a little dance to "Bye Bye Bye" in the front of the auditorium, and managed to start a train or two. Like I mentioned before, I really think the teachers enjoyed it more than the students. Who doesn't love dressing up and dancing around like a high school kid again?!
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