September was here and is almost gone yet we welcome October with open arms. The leaves around us are starting to change colors and the sweet smell of pumpkin is in the air. Our unit on apples has also come to an end. This week, we learned about our 5 senses. We had a blast testing our sense of smell while making our air freshners. Slicing apples for our taste test was neat because we got to use our sense of hearing as we chewed the crunchy apples and our sense of taste. It's a good thing that we all used our sense of sight to idenitfy the three colors of apples: red/yellow/green. To my surprise, many of us had never tasted yellow apples. Well, it turns out, yellow apples are our classroom favorites. We know this because we all got to graph the color apple that we each liked best. Green apples were liked the least. Since it was Jonny Appleseeds birthday this week, we learned all about him and his orchards. All it takes is one litte seed, soil, water and sunshine! We enjoyed slicing an apple in half and searching for seeds in the center before we used our markers, crayons, glue and scissors to make our own apple half. If you happen to walk by our classroom, stop and take a look at our bulletin board. See how many apple seeds you can count on our paper apple halves. We ended our day today using our sense of touch and Miss Alyssa was able to guess the secret item in our box, using only her sense of touch! She guessed that it was a dolphin and was correct! Next week, we will be learning about the letter B and bears! On Monday, to kick off our week of respect, we are asking everyone to wear a blue shirt! Together, we are participating in the world day of bullying prevention. Before I sign off, I have to comment on how amazing it is to see such young children being kind and helpfull to one another. Here at OCS, we strive to be C.O.R.R.E.C.T., and our pre-k and preschoolers are fine example of it! Keep up the great work and enjoy your weekend!!!!! Mrs. Gilberti