Silverado students celebrate spooky homecoming

Heather Cory

From left to right, Silverado juniors Shelby Northrup, Bobby Johnson, Brittany Moles, James Taylor and Ashley Frutus work together to put the finishing touches on their homecoming float in the Silverado High School parking lot.

By Ashley Livingston

Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008 | midnight

Silverado High School students spent the first week of October partaking in early Halloween-type activities.

The school celebrated its homecoming week Oct. 1-4 with spiders, webs and other spooky decorations, activities and, of course, the football game and the dance.

Students from all grade levels also created floats for their respective halftime parades, as well as chose a homecoming king and queen.

Ryan Cross and Shelby Black were chosen as the senior king and queen.

Two teachers were also given crowns.

Family life teacher Kelli Mathews was named queen and world language teacher Jeff Paul was named king for their classes having raised the most money for the Children's Heart Foundation of Southern Nevada.

Silverado Student Council Advisor Stephanie Stewart said this year the students decided to do a theme slightly different from the beautiful and serious themes of the past.

A Nightmare on Silverhawk Avenue guided all of the week's activities, which ended with a haunted ball held in the student activities center Oct. 4.

Students participated in pumpkin seed spitting, costume contests and got to wrap their classmates in toilet paper as part of a contest on who could make a mummy the fastest. They also got to dress like a zombie Michael Jackson for Thriller Day, Stewart said.

One highlight of the week was the blackout assembly in which the gym was illuminated by only spot lights, Christmas-tree style lights and glow-in-the dark jewelry and balloons.

During the assembly, students got to play a truth or dare-type game in which they had to chose a balloon with paper inside telling them to either answer a question or perform an activity like singing "I'm a Little Teapot" in front of their classmates.

Ashley Livingston can be reached at 990-8925 or ashley.livingston@hbcpub.com.