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Neighbors | Jessica Harker.Students used paint, paper and other crafting materials to turn pumpkins into literary characters including Pigeon from the Pigeon book series by Mo Willems.
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Neighbors | Jessica Harker.Second-graders at Poland Union Elementary School decorated pumpkins to look like famous literary characters, like The Cat and the Hat and Arthur.
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Neighbors | Jessica Harker.Students at Poland Union Elementary School combined the holiday with literature by decorating pumpkins to look like famous literary characters Pigeon, The Cat and the Hat and Arthur.
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Neighbors | Jessica Harker.Students in Mrs. Donahue's second grade classroom decorated pumpkins like characters from books they have read like Arthur.
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Neighbors | Jessica Harker.Students combined the holiday and classroom lessons at Poland Union Elementary school by decorating pumpkins and making posters to coincide with the Pigeo book series and other classic childrens books.
By JESSICA HARKER
Poland Union Elementary School students celebrated Halloween by creating pumpkins based on characters from books they are reading.
“It’s a lot of fun to see the pumpkins around the school,” said school Principal Mike Masucci.
Masucci said that the goal of this is to combine literature with the holiday fun and make it interesting and more enjoyable for students.
Students in Mrs. Donahue’s second-grade class decorated pumpkins to look like Pigeon, from the book series by Mo Willems, Arthur, from the “Arthur” series by Marc Brown, and “The Cat and the Hat” by Dr. Seuss.
Mrs. Jeswald’s second-grade class also painted pumpkins to go along with literature, painting stripes on some pumpkins to coincide with “A Bad Case of Stripes” by David Shannon.
Students used paint, paper, glue and other arts and crafts materials to reconstruct these characters through pumpkins.
Masucci said each year teachers at Poland Union try to create holiday crafts that coincide with lessons.
“Its fun for students and helps them learn without even knowing,” Masucci said. “When they are excited they are learning and they don’t even know.”
For more information about what students at Poland schools are involved in day to day, go to www.polandbulldogs.com.