october 28
Rigel and Autumn worked at the art table this morning — tracing shapes and counting out the “spots” for the play dough mushrooms. A while later, we all worked together to build our new marble run. After friends repeatedly (and accidentally) knocked it down, we decided to each build our own little section. It seems as though the marble run was good practice in body awareness!
In the park, we admired the Fall foliage and enjoyed splashing in ALL the puddles. We adventured through the tall grasses along the creek and had so much fun squishing our boots into the mud. At one point, we all pretended to be stuck in the mud, which was very silly!
While exploring, we noticed lots of tracks. Rigel thought they were bear tracks, but Autumn told him that bears don’t live at Tower Grove Park. Then Ridley remembered the woolly bear caterpillar we found last week and said that bears do live at the park :) In addition to animal tracks, we found tire tracks! Sylvie noticed that the tire tracks were made up of lots of little triangles.
After feeding white mulberry leaves to the horses, crossing the dragon’s bridge, and climbing on big logs, we finally made it back to the path and, eventually, back to school.
After rest, we cut a hole in the top of our pumpkin and pulled out all of the slimy seeds. We didn’t like how the pulp felt on our hands. Too yucky!! So, we used spoons to clean out the rest of the pumpkin and then told Deidre what kind of face to carve. We wanted two triangle eyes, one circle mouth, one square nose, and two scary eyebrows :) Then, we placed two candles in the pumpkin and turned off all the lights. It was so exciting and so spooky!
We gave the “pumpkin guts” to the chickens and they loved it! We didn’t know that chickens ate pumpkin!
We ended our day by scaring each parent that came to pick-up. We had so much fun hiding in the dark and then jumping out and yelling “BOO” as each grown-up arrived. We think the parents were really scared :)