As everyone knows already we had an impromptu early dismissal on Friday. The power went off at about 130 and about 230 most of the children had left with parents or caregivers. The funny thing was, no one really wanted to leave. We were sooo busy painting our scarecrows and making our crows, that the children didnt notice that we didnt have any power. In fact most of the time we work with out all of our lights anyway, so to have the power go out, was really a minor issue for the children. But, thank you for those who did respond as quickly as they did...this definitely tests out how quickly people will respond in emergency situations!
Speaking of early dismissals there are two coming up next week. Next Tuesday and Wednesday the children will be dismissed at 155 (as the first parent teacher interviews begin at 200) so we will be gathering the children up a few minutes earlier than normal and saying good bye so that the interviews can begin immediately. All parent teacher interviews are for only the parents and the teacher. For this meeting the children will not be coming. Usually we have them attend the second set of interviews. All meetings will be for 20 minutes. Please knock loudly on the door when it is your turn as we want to give everyone a fair chance at having their 20 minutes. Thank you so much!
Also as a reminder, there is a Professional Day on Friday.October 21st. Children do not come to school on this day.
We have had a great few days together. I am attaching many photographs for you to look at. I try to get pictures of everyone, but sometimes if the children have left for hot lunch or the bathrooms, sometimes I miss them. I try to make sure that over the weeks I get a shot of each child at least once. I hope you enjoy the pictures. I feel just by looking at their faces, you get an idea of the joy that goes on in the classroom!!
With that, have a great rest of the day and I will see everyone tomorrow!
teri
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| The corn feast. We all tried the corn that my parents brought from grand forks. You can see for your self by the pictures coming up how much they enjoyed their corn on the cob! This is part of our harvest unit. We are also looking at the parts of the corn, and on Monday will be looking at the Life Cycle of the corn plant. |
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| Today Nikoo came in to talk about mulching and why we mulch. So we collected some leaves and added them to our garden boxes to protect the soil and the plants. Then we also planted our winter crop....kale. Later we went inside and learned about the life cycle of the Kale. In the spring, we should begin to see growth and likely will be able to start harvesting our Kale plants. Yum! |
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| Nikoo demonstrates how to plant a kale without harming the plant. |
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| Every day, right after lunch we do our DEAR...which means drop everything and read. I partner up the children and they read their home reading books to each other. It is amazing how helpful they are to each other, as well as how they really are interested in listening to their buddy read! This is one of the reasons why it is important to return their home reading daily. Reading with their classmates is always exciting for them! |
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