I really do believe Halloween should be on the last Saturday of October. Some students treat Halloween as a two day event: day one preparation and day two recovery.
Halloween always seems to come with its slew of questions:
Miss do we have Halloween off?
What are you going to dress up as?
Are we having a Halloween party?
Do we have to do work on Halloween?
Can I bring in candy?
This year not only did I receive the typical questions, but I was given a note.
Let me explain the situation...students are given two weeks to complete vocabulary homework: week 1 spelling and week 2 definition. The homework is rather simple and I cannot remember a time when I excepted a student's excuse for why they did not do their homework; so when this note appeared this student didn't stand a chance!
For those that are wondering this students earned a ZERO for his homework that he had two weeks to complete!