October 6th-October 10th news from Camp Buckaroo

Hello Families!  This is just a small look at our week of amazing learning at Camp Buckaroo.  Remember that the text in green is what the children asked me to type for them.  This is called shared writing and they look so much about the craft of writing from this small but powerful weekly activity.

Parent/teacher conferences begin next week.  If you haven't signed up for a time or you need a reminder for your date and time please let me know.  I am really looking forward to talking to all of you.

The 50th day of school is the day before our Harvest Party celebration.  I like to celebrate this milestone in a big way with the children by dressing up in clothes from the 50's and spending the day learning about this decade.  I would LOVE to have your little ones join me in dressing in 50s attire for this day.  I will be wearing a poodle skirt and sporting a pony tail:).  We will be talking more about this as the day gets closer.  

The next day is October 31st and we will be celebrating in the afternoon.  However, I'd like to start the fun in the morning of the 31st.  I'm asking for six parent volunteers to come in and lead a small group of four children in some fun pumpkin activities.  Please let me know if this sounds like something that you'd love to do the morning of October 31st.  If each of the volunteers could bring in a pumpkin and tools in which to carve the pumpkin that would be great.  Please let me know if you'd like to be one of the six!  The first six that respond will get the honors:)

The schedule for next week:  Monday is P.E.   Tuesday is Art   Wednesday is Music    Thursday is Library    NO SCHOOL on FRIDAY!  The following Monday will be P.E.

These girls are observing the parts of an apple because they are doing an experiment.  They are looking for the skin, flesh and seeds.

This boy is looking at the apple.  These boys are looking for the same parts as the girls.

We did an experiment called Save The Apple from oxidation.  It means the air hitting the flesh and makes it brown.  This team tried salt water to keep the flesh from turning brown.

These boys were using apple cider to make the apple stay fresh. 

These boys tried apple juice to keep the apple from turning brown.

These girls are squeezing the lime into the bowl with the apple slice.  One of these girls is sneaking a lick of the lime.

These girls used purple Gatorade in their bowl to keep their apple fresh.

They used orange juice to keep it fresh.

The apple in salt got the least oxidized.  We found out that salt preserved the apple.  This means it kept it the freshest.  The lime juice got the second least oxidized because when we tried the lemon it worked and limes are related to lemons.  They have acid.  The apple in orange juice got third because it has a little bit of acid.  

The apple in Gatorade turned purple and got into the flesh.  It has chemicals in it to make it purple.  It's a dye.  The apple in the apple cider looks yucky.  It looked gross.  

We had guidance with Mrs Elfers.  She taught us about feelings like sad, happy, mad, excited, cranky, crabby, weird, sleepy, loving and others.  

After writer's workshop, we listen to each other share stories that we've written.  This boy is sharing a story about a coliseum in Italy.  There were a lot of questions for this boy's story.