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Getting Ready for Our Halloween Fun Run Run the Seasons The Autumn Run  We'll wear these on our backs to collect autographs at the Friendly Ghost Station. We'll wear others on our fronts with our Halloween identities.
October 30, 2000 The Pumkin Run!
It's fall in New England and with fall comes colorful foliage, cooler weather and Halloween! Tomorrow we will be having a 'Pumpkin Run' before our Halloween party. We've been getting ready for our second fun run for a few weeks. This year with the creation of the Run the Seasons Program, we will be having a fun run for each season. In the summer when school first started we had a Kangaroo Hop with Mrs. Bosco's class, and tomorrow will be our second of a series of four classroom fun runs.
We invited Mrs. Milici's class to join us this time. Here's how we have been getting ready. We practiced reading the poem that Mrs. Goodrow wrote for an invitation. It was a fun poem with lots of short a words in it. Our favorite lines were: Be a cat. Be a pumpkin with a hat. Be a man. Be a fan. Be a happy kid who ran.
Then we had to think of something to be (only in your imagination...no costumes allowed), but the name had to have a short a! It wasn't that easy. Actually you could be anything that you wanted but then you had to be clever and add something to that name with a short a. Here are some of the things that we are going to be: Cinderella in a glass slipper a witch with a hat a bat a ghost with a cat Get the idea? Then it got more fun. Mrs. Goodrow bought some pinatas to use as stations for the fun run. They are hanging from our ceiling to give the mood of the holiday. Tomorrow they will be on the field. She bought a ghost, black cat, jack-o'lantern, bat and witch's cauldron. Last week we had to get our Runner's World Running Numbers ready. We are not racing so we got to use the back of them to color like pumpkins. A mom made the pumpkin outlines for us. We added orange and green and the Runner's World Logo from other running numbers. Mrs. Goodrow will be writing our Halloween names in them. Today we'll make more...We'll draw the outlines ourselves this time, and leave the insides blank. Here are some of the things we'll be doing at our Pumpkin Run tomorrow.
We'll run to the friendly ghost station.
FRIENDLY GHOST STATION Use magic markers to sign the blank pumpkin numbers of 5 friends. These blanks will be worn on our backs. We're wearing the numbers with our own names that Mrs. Goodrow has written for us on our fronts.
Then we sprint to the jumping Jack-O'Lantern station.
Then we jog to the black cat station. BLACK CAT STATION Do a cat walk around the station and be careful not to scratch another runner with our scratchy outstretched paws.
Then we sprint to the bat station BAT STATION Pretend we are bats sleeping in a cave. Get our legs up in the air while we spell bat. B-A-T, that's 3 letters. We had to write the other kind of letters to our parents telling them, "No dresses allowed today." We are allowed to wear dresses when we run but not for the Bat Station. Then we run to the witch's cauldron station WITCHES CAULDRON STATION This is our finish line. We get a surprise when everyone finishes. This will be a lot of running fun for the kids at our school. We are so lucky. We run in gym class. We run at recess. We run with our teacher and we sometimes have Run the Season Fun Runs.
 Designing our own Running Numbers
I'm hoping that this Web site will encourage our young people to embrace running, stay healthy and be the best they can be. Please send us a description of your running program. Help us share with the school and running communities. Please email <rwedit@rodale.com with comments on this article. If the impetus started by Runner's World continues, 2000-2001 may very well be known as the 'Year of School Running Programs'.
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JUMPING JACK-O'LANTERN STATION Do jumping jacks to the beat of the syllables of jump-ing-jack-o-lan-terns....that makes 6 jumping jacks.
Thank you to Runner's World for the Running Numbers. We could have made our own out of construction paper, but they would not have held up during our run. The real running numbers are the way to go. They are made out of a sturdy material that will withstand any kind of weather.
