Friday

       This morning, our morning meeting was lead by Jenna. We then had only a few minutes to read a book before Spanish. We read How do Apples Grow? by Betsy Maestro. This book lives by it's title and teaches children how apples grow. It starts off in the winter with bare-branched trees and goes throughout the year, showing the children what apples look like as they grow up. We then had early fruit break and Spanish with Bernie. The Bolivian students have arrived at Community School and Elena was doing a special project with them today. The Bolivians will be here for 6 weeks and are so eager to work with your children! You may begin to hear about them soon.
     Later this morning, we had buddies with Betsy's class. We continued our apple theme and made apple prints. We first read a story about a little boy who gets bored and his mother sends him on a mission to find a little red house with no windows or doors but a star inside. To read the complete story, click here. As you can conclude from the ending, the little boy finds an apple in an orchard and brings it home to his mother. She cuts it open to discover the star inside(this only happens when you cut it horizontally, not vertically). The children were amazed! We then partnered up and painted our apples (and some of our clothes - no worries! It washes out!) and made prints on our paper. They'll need to dry over the weekend but I'll hang them next week. Pictures should be posted soon as well.

I hope everyone has a great weekend! See you on Monday.