This week, we started out with a forest classroom day! The students made their own fort out of big sticks, found more than one salamander (among other creatures), and started drawing and dictating their nature observations in our new nature observation journals! At the end of our time in the forest, we went on a walk up the trail and used all 5 of our senses to notice the world around us. It was another wonderful forest day!
On Wednesday, Ms. Rice had to do more preschool director work, so Mrs. Becka came back! They read “Sleep Tight Farm,” a story about a farm going to “sleep” at the end of fall.
On Thursday, we celebrated a birthday! We also opened up a pumpkin and put it in our sensory table to feel the insides and pull out the seeds. Once all of the seeds had been pulled out, we counted them! We grouped them into groups of 10 as we counted, and we counted all the way to 80! Mrs. Duvall came back again to teach music class, and we sang songs about farm animals!
On Friday, we went on a field trip to Newmont Farm. We saw big trucks and tractors, mamma cows and calves, cows being milked, and the trucks that carry the milk to a factory! We also got to taste cheese and chocolate milk, paint pumpkins, and ride in the cow carts! It was such a fun day and everyone learned a lot about farms!
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