I hope everyone is enjoying the beautiful sunshine that we are having. What a lovely way to end September. Did you know that we made history for the warmest (dryest) September? I think with such a wet spring, that we were deserving of such beauty!
First off I want to thank all the parents who were able to come to the open house and for those who couldn't, i missed you! It was nice to touch base with some of the dads that don't get the opportunity to pop in as often as the mamas do. I hope you had opportunity to read my overview...which didn't really tell you much more than the blog has been doing, but now you have it in hard copy as well as the daily schedule to check out as a reminder.
Secondly I would like to congratulate the children on an amazing job during the Terry Fox Run. We did a mini warmup in the gym led by a former parent in our classroom, Lani, then we walked to the beach, did our 30 minute run, walked back and then had to say good bye to 14 of our cross country runners who then proceeded to do an amazing job at the cross country meet. What a busy, energetic day for our children.
In class we have been working hard on our apple unit. On Friday we talked about the seasonal life cycle of the apple tree, we did some writing and then some art really looking at how the apple tree changes at each season. We will do one more lesson on the apple/apple tree then move on to taking a look at pumpkins and the similarities that they have to the apple.
Next week we will be putting more of a focus into Thanksgiving as it is just around the corner. Can you believe how fast the month has flown by and now it is Thanksgiving???
On Thursday, Catriona, our partner from SPEC will be joining us to talk about travelling seeds and how nature affects how different seeds get planted. Catriona has worked with the kids in our class as well as Ms. Jung's class for the last 4-5 years and has done an amazing job of introducing our children to the life of a gardener. Over the year we will do many lessons with Catriona about gardening and what is involved with being a gardener. We will be planting crops at the church across the street and then harvesting our crops when they become available. For the past five years it has been free, but as costs of gardening supplies and Catriona's time have become more costly, we are being charged 5 dollars per child to make this program viable. Because I think this is such an amazing program I will be covering the cost out of our classroom fund that we have been given by the PAC......so thank you PAC.
With that, I have a few pictures of some of our activities that we have done. Unfortunately I had forgotten to take the camera to the park so these are just a few photos of our work.
See everyone tomorrow,
Enjoy your last evening together,
cheers,
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