Fall is HERE!

It was a wet and chilly week!  We survived a couple days of indoor recess and still managed to have fun!  This week, we set up the painting easel.  There were paintings galore!  We also enjoyed playing the Mr. Potato Head game at one of our centers. 

On Wednesday, October 9 we will visit Chapin's Apple Orchard.  This field trip will happen RAIN OR SHINE!  Please be sure your child is dressed for the weather.  Rain boots are highly recommended since it tends to be wet at the orchard in the morning.  We expect to be back at school in time for lunch.   We will use our apples for cooking and for scientific exploration.

And now a word from the kids...

This week, our last Monarch butterfly hatched.  It was a boy.  We let him go.  He will go to Mexico. It is warm there in the winter.  This chart shows that we had 7 female Monarchs and 6 male Monarchs. 

This is Miss Meg.  She is our Farm to School teacher.  We learn about food that is good for us.  We try new foods.  This week we had apples with honey.  We learned that bees make honey.  Bees bring pollen from one flower to another.  That's how apples grow.  

This is Mabel.  Mabel helps us spell words. She teaches us about letters.  This week we learned about vowels.  The red letters in Mabel's name are vowels.  We all have vowels in our names.  

We played some math games this week.  One game is called "Beat You to Five."  The other game is "Which Numeral Will Win?"  The games help us learn how to write numbers and add cubes.  

This is us doing yoga.  Yoga helps us to be calm. It's good for your body and it's good for your heart and brain.  It helps us to cool down or warm up. 

We did a project.  We read Wemberly Worried.  Wemberly worried about everything.  She was worried about going to school but then she found a friend and she wasn't worried any more.  She got much more better.  We used paper plates and cut out shapes to make our own Wemberlys.  

This is our leaf counting center.  We gather leaves and put them in the basket.  You have to get the right number of leaves.