Dear Garden Families,
It was a fun and busy week as we finished our current blocks of Jataka Tales and Human and Animal. The Lower Grades enjoyed the stories, crafts, drawings, summarizing stories and writing their own reader book. They also acted out the story of The Hare in the Moon for the Upper Grades class and did a great job! The Upper Grades had fun crafting, knitting reins on a lucent, casting deer tracks as well as learning to draw animals and writing about the various animals we read about. The class also finished up their respective blocks creating unique animal quatrains (four-lined poems) with a partner and made animal nests using natural materials with Mr. Lee.
Starting Tuesday, we will begin a combined Grades block of Shelters Around the World for the next three week which will include a project completed at home as well as building a shelter together in the forest with Ms. Kathee and Mr. Lee.
This past week all the students enjoyed being together both inside for our rainy day and outside too! We jumped rope by fours, played hopscotch by threes, used beanbags for math games and began pentatonic flute lessons with Ms. Kathee. The children also wrote in their journals about various topics, worked in the garden, planted bulbs around the school entry, made sauerkraut and pickles and collected native plants for brewing tea at home to name a few of the fun activities.
Please remember to send your child with rubber boots for our creek play and thank you all for sending them with the necessary layers for our changing weather! It is much more fun to be outside when we are dressed for it!
Warmly,
Ms. Melissa and Ms. Kathee
