*We are planning to go to the Matthys Pumpkin Patch (57754 Crumstown Hwy, SB 46619. Tele: 574-287-1935) tomorrow as scheduled. If it is cold and raining, we won’t go, but if it’s cold and dry, we will! Please have your WF to school by 8:15 tomorrow if they’d like breakfast OR 8:45 (no breakfast). Prepare your child for chilly weather! If you are planning on transporting your child to the farm, please let Tami know as she prepares car seats. Many thanks!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Lea! Today, Lea turns three. To celebrate, she brought her friends homemade Zucchinicakes and wore a spectacular sparkly, sea foam green dress!!! Love!!!
Our abundant summer garden has grown, overgrown, withered, fallen and is now all done.
Amy C. suggested we cover the soil with fallen leaves.
Today, we built a lesson around preparing the soil for winter (and spring!). Using The Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman, we talked about hibernation.
Then we explored what it might feel like if we hibernated in the same way a bear does.
We discussed that by blanketing the garden with leaves, we are giving the earth food so that when we are ready to grow our next garden, the soil will have had lots of healthy vitamins and minerals. Then we got to work covering our dear old garden up for the long winter.
And what a glorious day to be living and playing on the earth.
Indoors, Tami set out The Five Little Pumpkins finger play book, orange and brown watercolor and white paper. Friends created vibrant, interpretive pumpkin art.
The Band of Boys and Birthday Girl requested the Pumpkin Pound.
In the music are we carried on with our hibernation exploration, we created a Snowflake Meditation, listening to the soft, sparkly sounds of snow falling and tickling our cheeks and fingers lightly as we rested our bodies. And then The WF Boy Band requested Dynamite.
Wee Sprouts: Carrots. Breakfast: Cheerios and bananas. Lunch: Whole grain rice with beef, corn and apple slices. Snack: Lea’s Zucchinicakes and orange slices.
In the other gardens
And all up the vale,
From the autumn bonfires
See the smoke trail!
Pleasant summer over
And all the summer flowers,
The red fire blazes,
The grey smoke towers.
Sing a song of seasons!
Something bright in all!
Flowers in the summer,
Fires in the fall!
-R.L. Stevenson
Great work Wee Friends on putting the garden to sleep! And thank you Amy for your continued “garden leadership”. Can’t wait to see how rich our soil will become for next Spring!
thank you all!
Jen