Celebrations and Trees

Last week the children celebrated the garden by having a Harvest Celebration around the school's garden during lunch time.  The children enjoyed the stone soup and eating outside.

We had filled up our school beehive a few weeks ago, which meant we had a school wide celebration.  For this celebration, each class was encouraged to be creative and decorate a pumpkin any way they chose to.  Our class looked at some examples online, narrowed it down to 5 choices, and voted for the  design they wanted to see on our class pumpkin.  A majority of the class decided on decorating our pumpkin as the Disney character Stitch (I would have never guessed that they knew this character!).  They had fun helping paint the pumpkin and seeing the other decorated pumpkins from other classrooms.


This week we had another great Four Winds workshop, which focused on Trees.  We learned about the different parts (wood, leaves, bark, roots) of a tree and their functions they serve to the tree.  We investigated the age of tree slices by counting the rings and looked closely at the bark for each tree slice by using magnify glasses.  We learned about the widest tree in the world (General Sherman; a Sequoia in California) and the tallest tree in the world (California Redwood).  Lastly, the children drew their observations of the tree slices in their science notebooks and performed leaf rubbings.

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