I am quickly learning that when you are in a bilingual school, all American holidays are celebrated. Although elsewhere in Honduras you will not hear a mention of the holiday, at school the children are excited and ready to celebrate. Groups of two students picked a room in the house and make a picture of it for our haunted door. Each student then wrote a scary story about their room. We used the writing as an opportunity to talk about synonyms. (How many times can you use the word scary in a story?) They quickly got into the world of witches, ghosts and blood, even making decorations at home and bringing them for the classroom. On Friday, some students dressed up. We read our spooky stories by flashlight, and went to a haunted house (called a boo house) put on by the 11th graders. All cultures enjoy the chance to dress up, feel frightened, and eat candy!
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