Spilyay Tyrooo, Warrn Springs, Oregon
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November- 8, 2007
Spooky way to teach math
By
L eslie M itts
S p ily a y Tym oo
Halloween proved to be a
litde spookier for students in ode
teacher’s math class this year.
Lüanne Foltz, a tribal mem
ber and m ath teacher at
Jefferso n C ounty Middle
School, created her annual
“haunted classroom” for stu
dents in her seventh grade level
math classes.
Foltz said she started the
haunted classroom in the late
1990s.
“Halloween is my favorite
holiday,” she explained. “I like
to see students being surprised
or scared. All the faces with
smiles are fun to watch.”
Plus, she said, “I w ant my
students to enjoy math and to
see that they can Still have fun
while they are doing math.”
Seventh grade student Inez
Jones, 12, said, “It’s like all math
stuff. We look for different
things like how many eyes are
in spaghetti.”
Fellow stu d e n t C olton
S te v e n s,'12, said the event
helped break up the monotony
o f his day.
“It’s way different,” Stevens
explained. “All my other classes
all I did was just work.”
In addition, Stevens said it
shows students that “School, is
not always boring.”
Twelve-year-old Chance
Davies said, “I thought it was
pretty cool.”.
“Even though you’re suppose
to go around getting the ques
tions, you still get scared,” .
Davies said.
A ccording, to B rittany j
Stevens, 13, “It was awesome:
Ms. Foltz is always awesome, but
today wasawesome.”
Mario Medrano, 13, said the
'■ eUperieneppjo'ffiMMs. f F o ltz |.
haunted classroom was unfor
gettable.
“I think it was cool because
you could feel the excitement,”
M edrano said; “W hen you
walked in there you lived an
experience that you’ll never for
get” .
During the class period, Foltz
said, each student was asked to
complete 20 questions dealing
with areas like estimation, mea-
surement, adding, subtractions,
fractions, geography and a few
that were just for fun.
But Foltz definitely doesn’t
want to take all the credit fojt
spooking her students.
“I have been very lucky in
the past,” Foltz said. “I have a
few great volunteers—Jabbar
Davis and Butch David— that
have'come in to help scare the
students and supervise the class
room so that everything would
run smoothly and the students
have more fun.”
Plus, Foltz said, she has
eighth grade students that come
in to help because they know
w hat happens from being in
class the year before.
This year’s volunteers all
agreed that the best part is scar-
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Top: Shajandra Saunders and Mareila Van Pelt in Ms. Follz’
haunted classroom.
Bottom: Mario Medrano, Colton Stevens, Brittany Stevens,
Inez Jones and Chance Davies each said the class was more
fun than normal classes.
Saunters added. -
ing students.
b'ellow seventh grade student
D im itri Dillard, A nthony
Stacona, Abby Scott and Bobby Clea Ibrahim said those involved
Ahern all helped out this year definitely worked hard to scare
by hiding in the classroom and the students:
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scare students as they made
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classroom.
Mareila Van Pelt, 12, saijf ihe
; Some students .even helped
classroom was only partly scaty,
decorate the night before.
“It’s pretty ‘sc a ry ,s h e ex
According to Scott, “This is
plained. “It’s pretty cool, I’d
a really cool thing to do.” :
Dillard said certain classes have to say, and scary at the
were better than others, and esr same time.”
pecially if the. students were
particularly scared,
“They wanted to have fun,”
hfe explained.
The eighth grade students^
also had the opportunity to scare
the principals at one point dur
ing the day—som ething they
described as the highlight
■ According to 12-year-old
Shaiandra Saunders, the class-
room was definitely scary.
“I was scared,” she said—es-'
pecially when a person dressed
as a skeleton started chasing her,
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