First Snow!

Boy were the kids excited about the snow falling this week!!!  It was like Christmas!  In fact, one of the kids said, 'It's snowing!  That means it's almost Christmas!!!"  Snow means the kids need to bring the Big 5 to school every day so they can go out and play!  Hat, mittens or gloves, coat, snow pants, and boots.  Please label with your child's name.

We wrote some fall poetry.  Then we recopied onto fall leaves and watercolored them beautiful colors and put them up on the Poet Tree!

The kids are working hard on their popcorn words!  They are so excited when they recognize one that they can read on the board or in a book!  They each have their own folders and practice with popcorn buddies all week, and see how many they can pass off on Fridays!

Wednesday was our fun trip to Northway for the District Championship Cross Country races!  It was quite chilly, but we had a great time, and Northway put on a yummy BBQ for us.

Here is our team!  The kids improved so much throughout the season, in their stamina and ability to stick with hard things and have sportsmanship.  I was super proud of them!!!

Getting ready for Halloween!!!  We made spooky spiders and silly pumpkins to decorate our room.  In math we figured out how to make 8 equal legs out of four pipe cleaners.  

Have you noticed all of the birds flying overhead?  We have!  So we did a mini unit on birds and their adaptations, including migrating south for the winter.  Sounds like a good idea right about now!!!

The school provides the kids with nutritious snacks every day.  This particular day they got to try dragon fruit, and had quite a lot of fun making a big mess :) . 

Friday we took a field trip across the parking lot to the school's greenhouse!  We got to learn what is growing in there, and bit about the nutrients in the veggies, and what they need to grow.   

We also got to smell some herbs, and use all of our senses to guess what they were! 

Ms. Bonnie Emery generously offered to give us some cilantro and tomatoes, and so this week we are excited to go back to the greenhouse to harvest some food and make fresh salsa in our class!