Happy Halloween!

This guest post comes to you from Ms. Frizzle--Magic School Bus driver and science teacher extraordinaire!  She was spotted sneaking into my classroom, early this morning!

Oh, how I love Halloween!  At the top of the list of reasons is that every Halloween a very special friend of mine, Ms. S, asks me to substitute for her class.  The children are strangely suspicious but an inquisitive and very welcoming bunch.


I was even offered hot tea, with a selection of flavors!  (The children seemed surprised and a little disappointed when I did not choose chai, which they informed me is Ms. S's favorite.)

It is always a struggle to choose just the right outfit for the occasion, but since Ms. S had shared the wonderful conversation she and the children had just yesterday about dinosaurs, other prehistoric animals, and the Timeline of Life, I could not resist this particular dress.






As every good teacher knows, no outfit is complete without accessories.  Flying pteranodons seemed like just the thing!

Along with a fun little pair of stegosaurus earrings.




Now, I must tell you with sadness that I was unable to bring along Liz, but curiously Ms. S now has a lovely assistant named Miss Liz.  Perfect!  She may even have been looking just a little bit green today . . .

There was much enthusiasm about field trips today, but I know how disappointed Ms. S would be if we had a wonderful adventure without her. 

"Maybe you can use your school bus to take us back to the time when dinosaurs went extinct.  That would be good for science because then we would find out what happened to them!"

"Yeah, can we go on a field trip?"

Of course there's always a student who reminds me of Arnold.  "Hopefully not.  I don't want to go on a crazy field trip 'cause I get bus sick."

I will tell Ms. S how very much the children wish to go on a field trip.  You never know what Ms. S and I might cook up in the way of science fun . . . Bus, do your stuff!