Sap and Feeling Grateful

 We are talking about GRATITUDE in our classroom. Being grateful can help our mood, calm us down, and give us good feelings! We sit and breathe, and imagine someone that we love. We imagine giving them something that they will like, and imagine the look on their face!  It feels nice to be kind! Our classroom "grateful turkeys" are filling up with feathers. Some of the words that the PreK children are saying include "family" "mommy" "daddy" "rainbows" and "Michele" (lol).  

We continued to rake around our trail and make it so nice to run on. We can see all the roots and stumps now and run really fast! Also carting a wheelbarrow full of leaves feels pretty good. 

We painted and created a "November trees" picture with brown strips of paper on a blue background. 

Our big story was learning so much about sap this week. We squeezed clear glue and glitter onto a branch and it looks like it is covered with sap. Matt came to talk to us about sap and told us that the VERY STICKY stuff that we are finding outside is actually not sap, but RESIN. It comes out of the tree to heal cuts and holes, like our blood does for us. Leiana zoomed in to talk about why sap is sticky. We experimented with sugar and water and found that if we mix sugar and water, it becomes sticky! We also know now that sugar is food for trees and plants, just like it is food for us.  

Until Next Time, 

Michele