Our days lately have been filled with careful observations of our rocks and discovering new beautiful ones, planting vegetables and herbs, finishing our Art festival project, making words by adding a letter to short words like "am" and "at" (word families) and our newest obsession - making books. In short, discovery is the driving force behind everything we have done lately. Every year I am amazed when children this age take a sudden leap forward in their acquisition of knowledge and their desire for more. It can be a little hard to keep up with their questions but so far I am hanging on by my nails!
The trip to the nursing home last week was wonderful! The children sang with confidence and gave their motions a little extra "umph". The pictures haven't yet loaded on this blog site but are on the facebook page. They are worth viewing just to see the expressions on our children's faces as they perform.
The Strawberry Festival starts Friday with berry cleaning and set up at the library on Thursday. As every year, a substation will be set up at Hollins College. We will walk over on Friday with our big buddies for a strawberry shortcake treat. Each child will receive 1/2 a shortcake order. This is funded by parents, teachers or any interested adult who would like to treat the class. This year I would like to treat this very sweet class as a thank you for their willingness to work together to become a loving family and community unit that we all can be proud to call ours.
Katlyn has informed us that many spots are still open for volunteer workers, especially in the food booth Saturday. If you haven't already contacted her, I urge you to do so immediately. If you can cover another shift, please consider doing it. Although we teachers are not required to work the festival I cannot think of any teacher who doesn't give their time so we will be there working at your side and feeling your exhaustion! I wouldn't trade it for anything because these are the experiences that form friendships for the adults in our school community. It's a little sweat and a lots of laughs.
Contact Katlyn at:
http://strawberryfestcs.blogspot.com/
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