Osiyo, River Otter Families.

What a beautiful week in the forest at The Garden School! Students enjoyed the glorious weather and crunchy leaves. They spent a lot of time in the forest digging, exploring, and playing tag. Early this week the children made necklaces with Ki Kim, using lovely fabric scraps and wooden beads. The students in our class have generous, giving spirits and love making pictures and jewelry for their teachers, parents, and other loved ones.

The past two weeks we have enjoyed stories about a favorite fall snack, apples! Last week’s story was about the first apple tree, which longed to touch the stars. A star fairy takes a journey to bring the tree some stars, however when she returns the tree has beautiful, ripe apples that it loves and can not part with. The fairy decides to put a star inside each apple so that when a child cuts an apple (sideways, between the blossom and the stem) they will see the magic star inside. We cut an apple each day to see the magic star.

This week’s story was about a tree that had three round, ripe, golden apples hanging on a branch over the orchard wall. The breeze sings a song as it blows through the tree about the special prize inside the apple. As three children walk by the tree, an apple falls at each of their feet. The first child eats the apple and throws away the core. The second child saves their apple in a drawer and it goes bad. The third child cuts the apple, sees the star inside, removes the seeds, and plants them in the orchard before eating the apple. The breeze sings that when seeds are planted, an apple’s job is well done. On Friday, we shared slices of Golden Delicious apples and watched a puppet show.

Announcements and Reminders:

Conference week is here! Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, Oct 20-22 are half days (12:30 dismissal) for all students (no need to pack a lunch on these days but please send a snack and water bottle)
Thank you for sending warm clothing! This week will see a big cool down so we will definitely be needing pants and light jackets or sweatshirts this week.
You may send a small, light blanket in your child’s backpack for rest time, if they would like one.
It’s Scarecrow time! Please send in items for the scarecrow or bring them with you if you are coming to help build it. We will be meeting in our outdoor classroom on Tuesday 10/19 at 2:00pm. It will be a lot of fun! If your child does not usually attend school on Tuesday afternoons, you (and they) are welcomed to join us. The more, the merrier.

Thank you so much for sharing your children with us, and for being part of our community.

Gvyalieliga,

Ki Holly