{"id":1858,"date":"2019-10-28T22:22:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T22:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/elgin\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2019-10-28T22:22:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T22:22:36","slug":"by-the-light-of-the-halloween-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/elgin\/2019\/10\/28\/by-the-light-of-the-halloween-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"By the Light of the Halloween Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

A toe!
\nA lean and gleaming toe
\nThat taps a tune in the dead of night
\nBy the light, by the light,
\nBy the silvery light of the Halloween moon!<\/p>\n

One by one, a cat, a bat, a ghoul, a ghost, a witch, and a sprite reach for someone’s tapping toes.
\nWho could it be?<\/p>\n

On Monday, October 28, we visited the Kindergarten classes at St. Boniface and Elgin Public. We read the story By the Light of the Halloween Moon<\/em> by Caroline Stutson. This Halloween story with its rhythmic, bouncy text and imaginative illustrations, tickled their bones\u2014their funny bones, that is! <\/p>\n

Pictured below is their bat, a bungling bouncy breezy bat.<\/p>\n

St. Boniface Kindergarten class
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nElgin Public Kindergarten class
\n\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A toe! A lean and gleaming toe That taps a tune in the dead of night By the light, by the light, By the silvery light of the Halloween moon! One by one, a cat, a bat, a ghoul, a Continue reading By the Light of the Halloween Moon<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42kAx-tY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/elgin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/elgin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/elgin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/elgin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/elgin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/elgin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1865,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/elgin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions\/1865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/elgin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/elgin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/elgin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}