From left, Brenden McMahan, Lucy Townsend, teach Michelle Weber, Warren Reynolds, Storey Schmidt, teacher Sara Hochberger, Christopher Swegle and Kamryn Warsky show off decorated pumpkins. Not pictured are teacher Lisa McCoy. (Port Angeles School District)

From left, Brenden McMahan, Lucy Townsend, teach Michelle Weber, Warren Reynolds, Storey Schmidt, teacher Sara Hochberger, Christopher Swegle and Kamryn Warsky show off decorated pumpkins. Not pictured are teacher Lisa McCoy. (Port Angeles School District)

Hamilton students decorate pumpkins

PORT ANGELES — Hamilton Elementary first-grade teachers Michelle Weber, Sara Hochberger and Lisa McCoy assign their students a family homework project each fall around the Halloween season.

“I started doing this quite a few years ago,” Weber explained, “and my teaching partners have come aboard and are doing it too.”

Families this year were asked to decorate a real or fake pumpkin as one of their favorite book characters.

“The sky is the limit, but we only ask that they do not carve the pumpkins,” she said.

The pumpkins were exhibited in the library at the school at 1822 W. Seventh St., Port Angeles for a couple of weeks prior to Halloween.

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