I hope everyone has had a great long weekend and has or will have a yummy Thanksgiving dinner full of thanks for their lovely families. Tonight is our big meal ...we held off till the "cook" (me) was feeling better...and I am thankful that I am!
I am thankful for the lovely class that I have been blessed with this year. My grade two's have all stepped up to the plate to be lovely leaders, patient and kind and my grade one's have proven to be so adaptable and flexible and ready to conquer any challenges. It is quite the transition to go from Kindergarten and a two month summer break to a grade one-two classroom where the expectations are higher, where they are encouraged to read, write and work in teams. And these grade ones certainly are embracing the power of learning! Thank you to the parents and to the grade 2's who are wonderful role models!
This last week we went outside and prepared our two garden beds for the winter. We drew what the garden beds looked before we weeded and got rid of all the old plants and then drew what our garden beds looked like after we transplanted our kale into one garden bed and got it ready for the winter.
To get a garden bed ready for the winter the children had to collect leaves and place all these little warm blankets around the feet of the kale.(the roots of the kale). These little nature blankets will keep the soil from eroding away with the rain and keep the roots nice and warm until the spring sun comes...the leaves will also start to decompose and add nutrition back into the soil. The other garden box will be left for our bulbs that we will be planting this week.
During the cleaning of our garden boxes, the children discovered bugs, aphids, rolypoly's spiders, seed pods and many other exciting creatures. We were very lucky to have such a lovely day to do all of our exploring.Thank you Andrea for helping out!
Days to remember:
October 21st Individual Class photos
October 23rd and 24th Early Dismissal 145 for the Parent Teacher Conferences...if you havent sent me a text for a time, do so now
October 25th Professional Development Day...no school for children.
With that
have a great Monday and I will see you on Tuesday. Enjoy all the delightful pictures...if you press on one picture you can see the rest close up as you scroll through. Show your children...i told them i took tons of pictures for them to see.
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