Everyone is back and well rested after the long weekend and thank you for coming to Sport’s Day Festival!  Students from Waterfall class did their very best and showed off their art, athletic skills and their dance moves with pride!

This week, Waterfall students remembered to appreciate cows, bees, sheep, chickens and some of the many animals that are helpful, and give us products to eat, drink and more!  To review some of the ways that animals help us in our daily lives students watched as Ms. Mariko cooked chicken eggs for lunch!  Some little inquirers even wanted to know why the eggs changed color and texture when cooked! Everyone was curious, excited and thought that the eggs were tasty!

Waterfall students are always happy to share, explore and inquire about animals no matter where they are, during play time or Show and Tell! We went outside to play in the mud and take notice of what the wildlife has to show us. The student found all sorts of plants and insects!

Next, we asked the Waterfall students if it is still a hot summer and they said no! And, they said that they do not see as many flowers or insects since it has cooled off. In fact it will soon be cold! We asked them what some animals eat when it is fall and all the flowers and leaves are gone. They watched a video to learn that some animals need to look for food when it is cold, especially birds. Students worked together to paint cartons to help birds during the winter!

Then they filled the beautiful cartons with bird seeds and rice stalks to make it a little easier for the birds to find food and build nests in the colder months. We hung them up outside of the Waterfall classroom window so that students can now observe this fall and winter some ways that people can help animals!

As always, the more the merrier, so we encourage students to help more birds by adding beautiful bird houses at home! Enjoy the weekend!