Fall, 2014

Happy Thanksgiving to my new, and old, students! I hope you are all having a wonderful long weekend with your families - enjoying good food, walking and playing outside in this glorious

weather, and thinking about how lucky you are and giving thanks for all that you have.

I also want to remind my students to keep collecting leaves for a school art project. They should gather colourful leaves of various sizes. We will be using them to make animals, so each student will need leaves to make a body, head, legs, arms, etc along with smaller leaves to make parts like eyes, ears, and so on. The leaves should be dry when they are collected, and then placed between two layers of paper (e.g. newspaper or old paper to be recycled). Heavy items such as books can be placed on the papers with the leaves in between. The leaves should be pressed for at least a week or two. They will then be pressed flat and ready for use at school. I will show the students various examples of animals they might like to make so that they can collect enough, and the right, leaves for their animal.