Trick or Treating ~ A Beye Discovery Tradition

Post Contributed by Jocelyne Adkins, Program Director

Trick or Treating on Halloween is an established tradition in Beye Discovery. For our 3rd consecutive year, we have had tremendous fun, dressed in costumes and ringing doorbells in the Beye community for a special Halloween treat! Another special tradition is that we are joined by Beye Discovery parents who add to the festivities and help to chaperone our fun. Thankfully, we were spared the downpours from earlier in the day and only had a few sprinkles. The children didn't mind at all and we enjoyed Halloween to the fullest!

Ms. Suzanne (Jack and Lucy's mom) and Ms. Sylvia (Leila and Cassie's mom) with Ms. Burnstein

Off we go!

Lucy, Jordan and Joel

A haunted house???

Jordan and Jadon (with Jackson in middleground)

Jackson

Lucy (foreground) with Leila and Jadon (background)

Ms. Burnstein and Cassie

Dexter

Joel

Leila and Cassie (foreground)

Lucy

Ms. Burnstein

Leila

A group shot: Thank you Suzanne for sending this photo to us!

A 2nd group shot with Ms. Burnstein and Ms. Adkins ~ thanks again Suzanne!

Halloween Haunted House

Post Contributed by Jocelyne Adkins, Program Director

Pasta boxes lend themselves to so many possibilities! Today, with a little scissor help and some black tempera paint, we transformed these boxes into terrific little haunted houses. Students were especially innovative using polyester batting to create the illusion of fog, creating a puppet box, and adding special effects through movement using string and original props. Students also drew ghosts and tombstones and used stamps of bats, skeletons, skulls to further embellish their haunted houses. These are very convincing and I hope they will spark some creative storytelling, just in time for Halloween!

Joseph

Heidi with Ginger (middle) and Peyton (back)

Carson's haunted house with ghost puppet inside

Peyton

Elijah working on the mechanics of his haunted house

Dexter

Emory

Joseph (front view of haunted house)

Joseph (back view of haunted house)

Jacob

Heidi

Elise

Leila

Jessica

Jadon and Jordan

Ginger

Halloween Inspired Painted Silhouettes

Post Contributed by Jocelyne Adkins, Program Director

Today we explored silhouettes in classic form, painting our subject with black tempera over a lighter watercolor background. Our focus on shape last week prepared many of our students for this activity and their enthusiasm for the upcoming holiday and creating ghoolish images kept the atmosphere quite festive. The completed illustrations are perfect for the Halloween season with images of pumpkins, castles, haunted houses, bats, and more!

Caroline

Joey

Laila

Jordan

Anika

Yinka

Isaac

Emily

Jordan

Elijah

Elise

Dexter

Norah

Joseph

Appropriately spooky!!! Hopefully these will be included in your future Halloween festivities: )

Skillful Skull Games for Halloween!

Post Contributed by Jocelyne Adkins, Program Director

We must admit that Halloween is a very fun and creative time of year and in Beye Discovery we embrace it full force : ) This week is packed with terrific Halloween projects and today we were inspired by kraft paper skull boxes (found at Michaels last year) to create our own travel size Halloween games. Ideally, the entire game should fit in the box. The students' creations are unique and very fun ~ do have a look below to see the students' work in progress and a number of their completed games!

Dexter writing the game's rules with bat playing pieces

Dexter's bats

Dexter's completed game

Yinka

Yinka's Game box with playing pieces

Ethan's skeleton game

Heidi

Heidi's rules for play

Hiedi

Anika

Anika's completed box with rules for play

Leila

Leila's game box, up close

Jessica

Cassie's game box

Joey's Game box

Xantal

Joey, completed game box

skull