Room 18 at Kerkstra Elementary visited Odyssey Fun Farm last week.  The students had a blast learning about the autumn season while practicing safety skills in the community!  The students especially enjoyed playing in the sensory corn pit and feeding the goats at the petting zoo.  At the end of the day, each student received a pumpkin to take back to class.  The next day the students used the pumpkins for a language-based pumpkin decorating activity.  We love autumn!

This month Mrs. Berngen and Ms. Bryar's room started using daily yoga to incorporate stretch breaks throughout the day.  We are learning a lot of new poses!  

Some of the poses we are working on are: 

1.  The Crescent Moon Pose because the days are getting shorter.
2. The Tree Pose because the tree leaves change color
3. Warrior III Pose because the birds fly south for warmer weather
4. Chair Pose because farmers harvest their crops before the frost.  

We also have started Cosmic Kids Yoga on Fridays to utilize technology and the ability to give a model for each pose.  

Over the last month Room 22 has been working and learning about apples.  We read the story Johnny Appleseed, measured our apples, taste tested them, weighed them and learned that apples float when in water.  To end our awesome journey through everything apples, we made homemade applesauce in the crock-pot at school.  The students loved it and the classroom smelled amazing.