Veterans Day And Class Community

Our Class Takes A Walking Field Trip And Makes A Class Spider Web

Our class walked from the school on Friday to attend the Veteran's Day parade. We learned what our veterans have done for our country and the importance of having a free and independent country. Our class was able to write thank you letters to veterans for a veterans breakfast on Thursday and we had a great time walking as a school to the parade.

We also created a class web as part of our ongoing community building experiences. We rolled a ball of yarn to a friend and greeted them and then held on to our piece, creating a very large spider web.

Garden Time And Class Chain

Our Class Goes Harvesting And Creates A Class Chain

Our class went out to the community garden and picked celery, onions, carrots, and beets. We will be using the fable, "Stone Soup", as an anchor for our project. We also used some of the beets for making beet chips in the cafeteria on Friday. The students watched while I used a mandoline, a French slicer used for making very thin "chips", and then they oiled and salted them. They were accepted very well by the class. We will make the soup together and then try it in class. The class also had one student who with some help was able to used all of plastic chain links to make an extremely long chain. We then walked to our special for that day having all the teachers and kids hold it off the ground. It was a nice community building activity.