Busy Week

We have been on the go all week! Monday was our fabulous trip to Jeter Farm. The children had such a wonderful time petting and feeding the animals. There were pigs, calves, goats and sheep. Ask your child if they can remember the calves' names. One was Oreo, and the other was Snowflake. Look through our pictures and see if you can figure out which is which! The children also got to go on a hayride to the corn maze. We were lead to a look out tower and then to the pumpkin patch. Each child picked out their own pumpkin to bring home. We then headed back and washed up for lunch and had a picnic. The children seemed to love being there among all of their friends. Thanks again to all of the parents who were able to come and share this day with us. If you took pictures and are willing to share them with us please let me know and I can give you a cd to burn them or we can hook your camera up to our computer one afternoon to transfer the pictures. Thanks!!

Yesterday was exciting to the children because they got to meet our Bolivian Exchange Students while in their specials. The Bolivian Exchange students will be here for 6 weeks. They are all middle school aged, so they are considered more of the "big kids". They are all very sweet and loving children who can't wait to learn alongside your child.

This morning, Pattie was substituting for Autumn again and came in and read to our group. She read four different books to our class, but I only caught the title of two. She read By the Light of the Halloween Moon by Caroline Stutson and Trick or Treat Little Critter by Gina Mayer and Mercer Mayer and two others I didn't catch the title of. We were an awesome audience for Pattie. We then had our Early Learner Music class with Kim.

We've been having a hard time keeping all of our things organized during lunchtime. We all came up with a plan to make place mats for our lunch and fruit break (this way, our half-day students also get to make and use them). We colored our place mats with our "fancy markers", or as I call them, our dot markers. They all turned out very beautiful! The children loved using different colors and watching them blend together to make another color. I am going to laminate them so the children can use them at the table. They will keep all of their food together on their place mat.

We've also been working on some things for conferences next week. Please be aware that your child is expected to come to conferences with you! This is their time to shine and show you all of the wonderful things they have been working on so far this year.