november 1
We began our morning with some needle felting. We loved using the very sharp, very long needle to attach colored wool to our felt pumpkins. Then, we had fun with some food art! We counted out the same number of toothpicks, bananas, apples, chocolate chips and blueberries for each friend and then we created monster faces with all of the ingredients. Autumn’s monster had SO many eyes and that made us giggle :) We didn’t love the blueberries and bananas though, so we’ll try again tomorrow.
In the park, on our way to visit Grandmother Catalpa, we spotted Sheffield the horse on his morning walk. It was very exciting! His caretaker stopped so we could watch Sheffield eat grass. We had lots of questions! “What time does Sheffield go to bed?” We learned that he goes into his stall around 4pm, but doesn’t actually fall asleep until 10pm. That’s really late!
When we reached Grandmother Catalpa, we had fun climbing on her trunk, balancing on her branches, and pretending to use her sticks to suck up hot lava. A while later we decided we wanted to go across the street to the lily pad pond. We quacked for the ducks, climbed really high on the rock wall, saw a turtle sunbathing and pretended to catch Sisu (a dragon from a movie?). We flew all the way back to school to eat lunch with our Sisu dragons :)
During lunch, Deidre read a spooky story with a silly ending called Wolf’s Coming. She read the story to music and as soon as she finished, we asked her to read it again. We loved the surprise twist at the end!
Our day ended with each friend doing their own thing. Sylvie built people using shapes, Rigel completed the sign language alphabet puzzle two times, and Autumn created a poster which illustrates the “gifts” of each season. Then, we scared all the parents, AGAIN!
We missed Ridley today and hope he’s having fun in Washington!