International Day of Peace, Welcome Fall, and Nursery Rhymes Revisited

    September 21 was International Day of Peace. We found a great article at: https://news.masterworksfineart.com/2020/08/04/picassos-dove-of-peace#continue-reading

This article discusses the symbol of the peace dove and Pablo's involvement. We created our own replica for this day. We love doves and often connect friendship to the doves because of our Home Alone books and movies. A really great series from our favourite Canadian Illustrator Kim Smith are the Pop Classic series: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/series/PCP/pop-classics

Barron read these two books of ours in a very lovely afternoon storytime.

 

September 22 was the first day of fall and we were inspired to created a mandala from a template we purchased from the really neat creator at:  https://gabitatemporium.com/products/mandala-template 

We watched some nursery rhymes and fairy tales such as The Wheels on the Bus, Baa Baa Black Sheep, 10 in the Bed, Sing a Song of Six Pence, Jack and Jill, Humpty Dumpty, 5 Little Monkeys, Snow White, Cinderella, Pinocchio, and Alice in Wonderland. 

Cinderella is nicely done in this lovely resource as is The Three Little Pigs, for 60cents USD you can have these resources too at: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Dollar-Store-Teacher

Queen Elizabeth II's Departure

    Our beloved Queen has passed away and she is mised already. Barron and I signed the virtual condolences book offered by the Canadian Government: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/commemoration-her-majesty-the-queen/book.html. Thank you Members of Parliament and the Royal Family for allowing us to express our sorrow, grief, final appreciation and love and support to those who still remain. Our entry is on the 58th page: 

The Teachers Pay Teacher's Shop (tpt) has a very affordable and most splendid resource (the shop owner is so thoughtful she offers black and white and a coloured version in your purchase, we wish we could own every resource in her shop as her creations are worth it!) on the Queen: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Queen-Elizabeth-II-Reading-Comprehension-Worksheet-Famous-Women-Great-Britain-6392796  $1.25usd and you can own a copy like ours in the following screenshots: 

There was a chance to sign a Book of condolences at: https://www.royal.uk/ and Bear typed in a message as did I. 

We came across two charming books on the truly missed Queen shared next:

Welcome September+Harvest Moon, Patriot's Day, Organic Week and Parachutes

    This week our class studies found us learning about school in the early years and in the modern times. Immediately we thought of comparisons of Anne of Green Gables to our current times. This is an excellent video about schools from before: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RhSCrDdF-sU

Harvest moon graced us with several lovely days of orange and yellow moons. The sky felt cozy and warm as we painted a picture and recorded the moon's presence (as we have been since September) on our magnificient moon tracker sheet from our subscriber freebie provided by the one of a kind https://www.yourwildbooks.com/   The talented Barron painted a beautiful harvest moon picture to remember the 2022 moon treasure.

The above lovely resource is such a great price at this adorable etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/ofbeeandbearshop  We bought the entire year set of moons for each month and will share them as the months progress, such lovely creations they are art. 

September 11 also came, which is now called Patriot's Day, and it celebrates the spirit of the wonderful American survivors and the service man who contribute to our comforts. We appreciate you, thank you, and remember you often. We sent out a late important tweet to thank the New York fire departments. 

This also is organic week (Sept. 12-18) so we found some certified organic lemons on sale at the best local health store Joanne's: www.joannesplace.ca. 

We truly hope you, as well as ourselves, can bring organic food into our weekly food endeavors. Organicweek.ca mentions some ways to get involved and this is a great screenshot to remind one of the benefits of such: 

We did some neat physics learning (thank you kidsscience youtube) about parachutes: 

https://youtu.be/w4Jgh9V9gwE and https://youtu.be/Ab_g5sLoXoY

and we played with Patty Shukla (enjoy:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dFk_8-k30Uc) and our homemade parachute:

We used a blanket and had fun and then we found some great parachute men from Party City: