Passionate about Pumpkins!

Here are a few comments from our Magical Garden!

"I was so excited about finding my pumpkin.  I liked seeing the scarecrow.  I thought it was pretend, but I found out afterwards that it was Lyn-Nell! I loved having my picture with the scarecrows!"

"My favourite moment was to plant the seeds with the fairy dust... and then it was so exciting to find my pumpkin with my name on it!"

"I liked the magic seeds and planting them with Ms West!"

"I was so excited to find my pumpkin with my name on it!"

"I liked holding my pumpkin by myself!"

"I loved having my photo taken with my pumpkin!"

"I just knew that the magic seeds would grow into pumpkins!"

"I liked finding my pumpkin with my buddy."

"I was nervous when I saw the scarecrows, and wasn't sure that I wanted to have my photo taken with the scarecrows."

"I liked saying, "Magic seed, magic seed, grow, grow, grow!"

"I knew that the seeds would turn into pumpkins 'cause they were magic and Ms West said that they would grow!"

"My pumpkin is so beautiful, I want to take it home today!"

Just a few comments from the Kindy's about their adventure with the Magical Pumpkin Patch!
Love Mrs. Petersson

Touched by Kindness

At the end of an absolutely magical morning, I received a lovely gift of scented pumpkins on behalf of my sweet parents of Division 16.  With this gift of kindness, one of my talented parents wrote me a poem and has allowed me to share it here!  Many thanks to all of you for allowing me to work together with you as we inspire learning in your children this year.  -Ellen

Have you ever seen 

Magic Pumpkins grow?

They truly do exist

Where imaginations flow.

Some things are needed

But not what you think

It is not seeds,

Nor soil and a drink.

It is big hearts and love

That make magical things

Patience, caring and hugs,

You won't believe what it brings!

-Holly 2012

                            Many thanks to all of you for allowing me to work together with you 

                            as we inspire learning in your children this year.  -Ellen

Magical Pumpkin Patch 2012

During the middle of October, we enjoyed a very exciting activity with Ms West!  She came to our class and told the kindergarten students about magical pumpkin seeds!  She also brought with her some magical seeds and took us outside to plant these special seeds.  We had to repeat the words...

Magic 
seeds, 
magic 
seeds...
Grow, 
Grow, 
GROW!

After we said the magic words, and planted the magic seeds, we watered them with sparkly, magic water!  Now we will wait for them to grow special pumpkins for us!

YAY!  Our special day finally came... Ms West hurried to our classroom to tell us the good news!

Wow! Our magic pumpkins did grow!
They were so beautiful, all covered in glitter and even had our names on each of them!

Our Magical Garden had scarecrows! At first we weren't sure if they were alive or not!  Soon we realized that Ms Howard, and Miss Lyn-Nell came to join in the celebration of our magical pumpkins!

Here you can see the magic fairy dust tracks!

The rainy day did not dampen our happiness to see the pumpkins!

Miss Lyn-Nell came in to our classroom, so that we would
have a REAL scarecrow to draw!  Our drawings are amazing!

This is the poem that was on the back of our leaves that had our names printed on them.

These are some of our drawings!

This is Lyn-Nell!

Mondrian Masterpieces ... made together with our Grandfriends!

 During our second visit with our Grandfriends we spent time together creating Mondrian inspired masterpieces while we chatted and laughed together.  Our visits go by so quickly, and sometimes it is hard to tell who are the Kindy's and who are the 'antique boys and girls', one would never know that some of our special friends are in their late 80's, early 90's... with one of our special friends celebrating her 100th birthday in October!  We love chatting about our visit all the way back to school and often my little Kindy's remark that they wish that we could go and visit our Grandfriends more often.  This first masterpiece will be one of many on display at our Art Exhibition in the Spring of 2013.