The Garden School Tattler

Yesterday was one of "those" days. With a storm approaching, the regular classroom time that would have taken the edge off the anxiety produced by an impending storm was hit and miss because we had subs. As the noise level rose, the whole room seemed to be about to take off about like a 747.

We have great subs, but substitute teachers have no continuity. That's the point - they are subs, so instead of trying to do regular classroom activities, the idea is to raise above the ordinary classroom time and do something special. Special is hard when you have really high temperatures.

We had a lesson about transportation and how it's come along all these years. We've made paper airplanes and the kids got a charge out of flying them in the school.

We are talking about flight, airplanes and things that go. This Friday we will watch the air show and then go over to the airport.

We read a few chapters of My Father's Dragon and had an art contest. The winners got big candy bars.

We dunked for apples in the back yard - man it was hot. Mostly the children just wanted to explore toys. But they did like the apple dunking.

It's going to be hot today too. We're going to to the pool and the park. The water should be very warm today. It will be a good day to get the non swimmers swimming.

I'm delighted with Hadley, Peyton and Briauna who are going to win the puzzle race. They work on their puzzle every day and the results are wonderful.

More pictures from Hadley's mom.