Butterfield Acres Pumpkin Hunt
18 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
in Fall Activities Tags: butterfield acres, pumpkin hunt
Last week we spent a morning at Butterfield Acres- riding in a wagon pulled by a tractor, out to a pumpkin patch to find our pumpkins hidden in the grass and leaves- then back in the wagon to go to the little barn to decorate our pumpkins and then explore the farm and meet the animals while the works of art dried. There are some lovely photos in the gallery in this post- thank you so much to Rachel for taking lots of photos and then making me a disk of them- I promise I will get a replacement for my camera soon…although I believe the photos here are better than the ones I take! 
Thank you to all the families who came out and visited the farm with us- it was a perfect fall day, weather was fantastic, and I had so much fun.
Autumn is here!
28 Sep 2011 Leave a Comment
in Fall Activities Tags: fall, stone soup, thanksgiving
What a beautiful couple of weeks we have had! Unbelievable weather really for Calgary- the average high for the last couple of weeks is usually +16…and we have reached highs of +30! Lovely. My 10K road race went well on Saturday morning in Banff- its the first time I have tried anything like that, and I am glad I did it…and glad it’s over! Already my friends are trying to talk me into another one…I need a few days to recover before I commit to anything again! We had lovely days to take our Autumn Walks & Scavenger Hunt- I have photos of the kids as we went along collecting leaves, twigs, pine cones and fallen leaves in beautiful shades of green, red, yellow, purple. We played at the park, tag and hide & go seek, and everyone was hungry and thirsty and ready for snack! Next week I will post the finished products of the fall pictures they have created.
Next Week is also our Stone Soup Project before Thanksgiving- its wonderfully fun, and if you send a tupperware container in, we will send home a taste of our soup with you! We have different students on different days, so your child may end up making more than one batch with their class- please send in your items for the soup asap.
We had a speech-language pathologist in this week to do some assessments- as a free service- if you didn’t receive a assessment notice- its because your child is too young at this point for assessment (and we will revisit it next year)- and if you did ask for your child to be assessed and you haven’t heard anything back from me, it is because they show age appropriate speech and language skills. So no worries!
