Great Fall Party

We had a wonderful time at our fall party and the children's costumes were marvelous!  They had fun bowling, playing corn hole, painting pumpkins, digging for treasures in the balls, getting their face painted and jumping in the bounce house.  After the party we went trick or treating in the school and they were all very pleased with their candies and their treasures!

This week we opened up our pumpkins and scraped out the pulp and the seeds.  We washed and dried our seeds and we added them to our collection of sunflower seeds and corn seeds.  We planted all of our seeds and so far the corn has taken off and we're transplanting them already as they're up to 5 inches tall!

We worked on comparing the seeds with our magnifying glasses, making groups of seeds and comparing their size to determine which pile had more and which had less.  We saved our sunflower seeds and we'll make bird feeders next and hang them outside our windows to observe all the birds coming to eat this fall and winter.

We're moving on to learning about Indians, Pilgrims, Thanksgiving and healthy eating as we learn about the food pyramid.  We'll start off our new month with a new song.  Every month we have a new song that learn as we're learning the months of the year. We also have seasonal songs and we've learned the summer song and now we now the Autumn song.

Swimming will start next week and we are determining which class will be going to the YMCA to swim each week as we're working out the amount of room on the bus.  We will send home a letter on Monday with the schedule for our class so you'll know exactly when we're swimming.