On Monday and Tuesday, we learned about bats. Bats can eat up to 600 mosquitoes in an hour. They migrate south and hibernate for the winter. Mrs. Sheldon brought Bob the Bat (a puppet) to tell the children lots of bat facts.

Our student teacher, Miss Daniels, started on Monday. She will be with us until December 9th. She is a student at Simpson College.

Our Halloween party will be on Monday, Oct. 31st. We will not wear costumes. We look forward to seeing everyone at Open House on Thurs. Nov. 3rd. Our classroom will be open from
5:30-6:30. Your child will be able to show you some of the activities he or she does at school.

We finished up a short unit on pumpkins last week with pumpkin bars and pumpkin seeds. Thank you to Graham's grandmother for the pumpkin bars. They were delicious.

This week we are learning about bones. We have learned the names of some bones and that bones give us shape, protect other body parts and help make blood. We also learned that the biggest bone is the femur in our leg and the smallest are in our ear.

Next week we will learn about bats and owls. We also will have a student teacher from Simpson College, Miss Daniels, start student teaching in our class.

Please remember to send appropriate clothing for outside play with the colder weather. We try and go out each day unless it is raining.

We are learning about pumpkins this week. Yesterday we saw photos of the life cycle: seed, vine, flower, small green pumpkin and finally the fully grown orange pumpkin. The children are excited about the field trip on Friday. We are still in need of drivers--state regulations will only let children ride with a parent or in a car with someone who has had a background check. A volunteer is making pumpkin bars for our snack.

We added a new student to our class today. His name is Lohith. We now have 19 children in our class.

Next week we will learn about bones.

We finished last week learning about apples. We did a lot of tasting. We sampled apple butter on crackers, tasted different types of apples and made our own applesauce. This week we are learning about air, land and water. Today we learned about the three forms of water--vapor, liquid and solid.

We will be sending home permission slips on Friday for our trip to the pumpkin farm next week. If you would like to drive, please sign up on the list outside our room. We need several drivers to be able to go. We will be leaving school at 9:00 and return for lunch at 11:20. The farm provides juice boxes but we would like a volunteer to bring a snack.

Reminder: No School Monday, October 10th