Apple Picking!

First grade enjoyed a beautiful morning at First Fruits Farm in Freeland, MD!  We learned about the farm and got down to business picking apples.  The children worked hard in an attempt to clear 3 trees of its' fruit.  They used crates to make themselves a little taller and also got to climb up and down the ladders.  There was a lot of teamwork going on too as they helped with handing off the apples and putting them into the crates.  Some of the children stood by the truck and helped the farmers sort the good apples from the not so good apples.  At the end, each child was able to enjoy a just picked apple..... and the apple helped two of our friends lose a tooth!

The farmers told us we had picked just over 500lbs of apples in a little over an hour!  We brought two large bags of apples back so we could take them to CARES (Thank you, Lukas' mom for taking these for us!).  The rest of the apples we picked would be given to area food pantries and soup kitchens. Knowing that we were filling other peoples' buckets helped to fill our own!

Here's a photobook from our trip.  I had a few photos of friends from 1B too so I've included them as well.  I apologize in advance as I know there isn't an equal number of photos per child.  Dylan's Mom, helped to take a few pictures too (thank you!)  and I might have more coming from another parent next week.

   

I hope you and your family are enjoying this beautiful fall weekend!  

First graders, what was your favorite part of our field trip on Friday?  

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MFW And A Trip!

Yesterday, first grade visited the Meeting House for the first time.  In an effort to ease into it, our first visit in first grade consists of a period of reflection outside.  The children found a good spot, observed the exterior of the meeting house, and created a sketch.  Here's a few collages of our time (Sophia was absent and the photo of Max didn't turn out- sorry):

Several students said this was their highlight of the day yesterday!  I enjoyed it too.  Later this week we will go inside the Meeting House.  Beginning in October, parents are welcome to join us for Meeting For Worship during our first visit of the month.  Stay tuned to the FSB website for these dates coming soon.  

Today we took our first LS trip of the year.  After collecting soap, toothpaste, and deodorant, we gathered our donations and headed to CARES, a food pantry in our community.  

 

We just talked about bucket filling earlier in the day and knowing we helped someone else, helped to fill our own bucket.  Here are our totals: 53 bars of soap 2 liquid hand soap 22 tubes of toothpaste 18 deodorant 2 toothbrushes WAY TO GO 1A!! Parents, I hope you're having a great week.  I look forward to seeing you on Thursday evening for Back to School Night beginning at 7:00.  If you'd like to order books from Scholastic, please get your orders in by the end of the day on Wednesday.  Click here to place your order: First graders, post about a way you filled someone's bucket this week (other than donating to CARES)!