Having Fun in the Fall with Friends :-)

Strawberry Acres

Today we went to Strawberry Acres for a field trip - not to pick strawberries, but to pick APPLES! We started off with learning about what happens to apple trees during the different seasons. Then "Johnny Appleseed" told us his life story. After the story was over, the students were asked some questions about him, and one of the questions was, "Why does he wear a pot on his head?" A first grader raised her hand, and stated, "Because he wants to cover his bald spot!" Hmmm....well, you never know. :-)

The best part of the day was taking a bumpy ride in an open air bus into the apple orchard. Each student could pick 3 apples to take home with them. The field trip was then concluded with petting some animals, and even feeding them some grass. What a beautiful fall day for a field trip! 

 

 

Pumpkin Day!

On Friday we had Pumpkin Day at school! Students dressed in orange in celebration. The big excitement of the day was cutting open a pumpkin, digging out the seeds, and guessing how many there were inside.

Getting ready to cut open the pumpkin!

Beware! Stand back! Miss Follett has a knife!

 Time to dig out the seeds!!

 

 

Love their reactions!

Time to guess how many seeds are in the pumpkin!

Samantha was our winner! And yes, I counted the 588 seeds while they were out at recess. It was good for me :-)

Fun in the Leaves

The elementary students enjoyed playing in the leaves on this warm, fall day! Most of the girls spent all of recess gathering leaves into as big of a pile as they could. When I announced there was just 4 minutes left of recess, they all went crazy, throwing the leaves up in the air and just having a grand ole' time. It is when they started coming after me with piles of leaves that I decided it was time to line up. ;-)

Get Miss Follett!!!....ummm, not happening..."Time to line up!!" :-)