Week 4: It's autumntime

 Friday was the first day of autumn.  In a couple of weeks, we'll be gathering fall leaves!  For now, enjoy the last bit of summer weather.

"Maybe God gives us late summer air to fill up every pore, to be breathed into every cell of our bodies—sort of stocking up, so we can be happy still when the storms force us inside and make us yearn for the sunshine.  Maybe it is the balm that makes us feel satisfied with our spring/summer toiling in the earth.  Don’t miss it. Go out and walk in it, bike in it, sit under a tree and inhale it in. I’ll bet if it had a color, someone would bottle “Late Summer Air” and market it.  It is so good for you!" 

-Diane Hopkins, Late Summer Air

Song: It's Autumntime

I loved the ideas for autumn activities that Cami left in her comment on the previous blog post.  Let's continue sharing what we love about autumn with comments on this blog post - c'mon everyone, what do you love about autumn?

Last week in class, we talked about seeds, ate some popcorn, made some pictures using school glue & seeds, and went on a nature walk where we looked for seeds.  We found seeds from trees, seeds from weeds, seeds from flowers, pinecones, etc.  Little seeds, and big seeds.  I hope some of you are drawing pictures of seeds in your nature journals!

Remember, seeds need three things to grow into a plant:

Sunshine, water, and soil

This week we will be learning about flowers.  We need each of you to bring several blossoms from home - we don't want to be picking too many flowers in the CCC yard.  So, if you have flowers in your yard, please bring some to share.  We're planning on placing them all on a table, and then letting each child choose 2 or three for our activity.  (You can bring all of the same kind, if you want to.)  Weed blossoms are fine.  I know this isn't the best time of year for blossoms, so we'll have to make do with what we can find!