Halloween Celebration

ASYC classes celebrated Halloween in their own preferred way this year. Some classes had games while others put up class performances. All children went home with a bag of treats; some with additional "ghostly" lollipops; some with balloon swords given by Mr Pirate himself.

Halloween Outing

ASYC had our Friday Special/Halloween Celebration at ABC Indoor Playground. Children never tire of playgrounds, and ABC is no exception. All our kids had an enjoyable time as shown in the photographs.

Halloween

ASYC will be celebrating Halloween on Fri 28 Oct 2011.

Some information about Halloween :

• Halloween is celebrated on 31 Oct every year.
• It is a Western festival that is fast gaining popularity in the East.
• Halloween began as a festival from Ireland to ward off evil spirits.
• People carve out scary faces and figures in pumpkins, place a candle inside and set in their windows to scare away evil spirits and enemies on Halloween.
• The traditional colours used for most Halloween decorations are black and orange.
• Characters associated with Halloween : ghosts, witches, skeletons, vampires, werewolves, bats and black cats
• People celebrate Halloween by going trick-or-treating, which means children dressing up in costumes to look like traditional characters, such as witches and ghosts, and go from house to house and say "trick or treat".
• Most will give treats - candy or small toys.
• Many homes will be decorated with Halloween themes to scare away evil spirits

(Source : http://www.teach-nology.com/themes/holidays/halloween/)

ASYC celebrates the fun part of Halloween by giving out candies and having our children wear costumes of any kind. Nowadays, Halloween is celebrated with all kinds of costumes; it need not be scary. We celebrate Halloween as one of the many international festivals so as to increase the international awareness of our students. Last month we celebrated Mid-Autumn Festival. In Nov, we will celebrate the Indian Festival of Lights - Deepavali, and in Dec, Christmas.

Over the next 2 weeks, our children will be doing activities, crafts and worksheets in preparation for Halloween.

Mid-Summer Festival

Apologies for the late entry. For Mid-Autumn Festival 2011, we decided to give our kids a treat by inviting the Lion Dance Troupe to grace our school premises and also bring luck for the new school year. Our kids were delighted to see "lions" prancing around in the school and their classrooms. Even the young ones soon shed their fear and began enjoying the dance as much as the older ones did.