Learning in Cracow: Witches, Ghosts and Goblins

Friday 28th October was the last day before the mid-term holiday. Other schools in Poland don't get a holiday, but because this is a British school, its students get holidays just as if they were in Britain, lucky things!

But apart from being the last day before holidays, it was also a special day because of the Halloween party!

Everyone had a chance to dress up as their favorite scary character.

We had witches, skeletons, vampires and even mummies.

As some of you may remember, I've got a thing about making sure that everyone uses a good pencil grip.

Well, Axel made a point about this!
Take a look at his hand.
What do you think of his pencil grip?

(Don't worry, none of his wounds was real. The pencil - which was stuck onto his hand with special glue - fell off his hand by lunchtime, so his pencil grip returned to normal in no time.)

During assembly, our class also read the poems we had been working on during the week. Here's an example of an 'acrostic' poem we came up with:
Eerie Evening
Crying, weeping, scared,
Running through a graveyard,
Every creepy sound,
Everywhere spiders, bats and zombies,
Pumpkins glowing, scary faces seen,
Yell ... "Happy Halloween!"

It's called an acrostic poem because you come up with a word that's related to the subject of your poem and write it downwards (in this example, we used the word 'creepy'). Then you use each letter of the word to start each line of the poem, writing across. It's great fun. It helps if the class has already come up with a word bank of descriptive words that are written on the board to give you ideas for the poem.

After playing all sorts of games like trying to make a picture of a pumpkin with your eyes closed (kind of like 'Pin the tail on the Donkey') ...