Day 250 - Looking Ahead

It's always fun to see the students' enthusiasm at the beginning of the year. They're so excited to have all their new materials and their empty agendas. I caught a couple of 'my' girls outside after school busily filling in their agendas. If you look closely you can see M's agenda is opened to January. I know I told my students they should look ahead to plan their work but I didn't have such long term planning in mind. Then again, maybe she was just looking for all the holidays throughout the year. Hmmmm.

Day 249 - Fall's approaching

Although fall is still a couple weeks away, the leaves are on their own schedule and have starting turning colours. These leaves caught my eye because you could actually see the change mid-process. I like the mixture of the red and green. It almost looks like the leaves have some kind of rash.

Day 248 - Hay Hide and Seek

The grass at the farm has been cut and as a previous post has shown, bailed. By the way, these great big bails make a great place to hide when playing hide and seek with the dogs. The trick is to sneak off without them hearing or seeing you. I managed to sneak away a few times but was found quickly each time. As the picture below shows, Sadie sometimes likes to be the hider rather than the seeker.
It was another nice walk but we had to put the camera away part way through due to rain. It was nice to get some rain today but we didn't get as much as they promised. Here's hoping there's more to come.

Day 247 - Her(e)-On the Farm

Another beautiful walk at the farm. It's amazing the amount of wildlife we've seen since we've been walking there. Today's treat was a somewhat camera shy heron. I was hoping to get closer but as soon as he felt I was too close he flew to a new spot. Of course, having the dogs around didn't help. I did manage to get him proudly standing on a rock in the pond. He's actually near a place where there's still water. Unfortunately, with the dry summer, the pond is almost dry. Here's hoping we get lots of rain and snow in the upcoming months.

Day 246 - Very 'Pret-tea'

As a welcome back activity, our school's Parent Participation Organization (P.P.O.) hosts a Corn Boil for all the kids, staff and parents. The clouds moved out and the sun came out just in time for the festive community event. While mingling with the kids and parents, I captured this young Kindergarten miss' braids. I loved the colours, contrasts and shadows. Our school is predominantly caucasian, however this year we are blessed with the addition of a bit more cultural diversity. Here's to celebrating differences!

Day 245 - Jungle Bunnies

Another hot day but the kids seemed able to play hard just the same. This piece of equipment is called "The Skywalker". They use it to climb, hang, glide, and even sit (There's a chair behind the climbing wall.).
Other students were playing soccer, 4 corners, climbing on "The Spiderweb" or spinning on the "Super Nova". Of course there were those who chose to hang out in the shade chatting with friends.
Here's to playing with friends and learning new things.

Day 244 - First Day of School

I took this picture at the end of the day when the bags were much lighter. In the morning they were filled with school supplies, lunch boxes, gym clothes, paint smocks and other goodies. It was like a sea of turtles in the school yard, little bodies with heavy shells (bags). I guess it's a good thing it wasn't windy. It was HOT though, 40 degrees Celsius with the humidity. Let's just say it didn't take much for us to work up a sweat.