Five for Friday

I know I'm late to this linky party but I had to include my weekend in my Five for Friday!

I just love fall! I took this beauty the first day of fall. I love everything about fall; the weather, decorations, holidays, and themes at school! I turned the corner, saw this view and turned right back around to grab my phone to snap this picture. Enjoy!

 

  

This week we focused on letter writing, mostly friendly letters. My favorite letters were to Mr. Mutt and to Farmer Brown (the kids loved this one).  All these ideas and crafts came from Erica Bohrer's Letter Writing Unit. What is so amazing about this product?? She links all the writing activities to a picture book which is perfect for my little peaches. It grabbed their attention, gave them amazing ideas and had them enjoying the writing process. I'm so glad I found this unit! I can now get them ready to write their thank you notes to our Donors Choose donors.

 

 Every year I get my kiddos out for a field trip towards the end of September. My little town does an Agriculture Day for all the local schools. We spend the day going to six stations along with a snack break. The whole day is flawlessly organized and the kids are all smiles by the time we leave. Even though they know a lot about agriculture because many of them live on ranches they still love collecting, eating and learning something new. Anyways, we won first place in a mural competition and got some lovin' from a calf (half their hand was in her mouth).

 

Like  I said earlier I LOVE fall! So my sister and I planned a mini trip to a Northern Cali favorite Apple Hill. That's right, nothing but apple EVERYTHING at ranches north of us. They have yummy food, drinks, cool fall weather and crafts, I could spend all day up there! We ate our way through two ranches and then headed home.We all had a fun time and I can't wait to go back up again later this season!

 

 I give my peaches jobs and can I say, they take them very seriously. When I said clean up the room all but one of my little peaches could be found roaming around the room picking things up and pushing things in. I turned to tell one little peach to start cleaning up and she shows me this..

 I was in shock and awe of her hard work she did on making this area of my classroom organized and clean. Can she come to my house and do this??? I was very appreciative of her help!

That wraps it up for last week, cheers to a new one and for October!