One week from tomorrow will be orientation! We're so excited to get started on the new school year! Are you getting ready? What are you most excited for? Here are some fun things we've been noticing:
- Engage the senses: Have you ever stopped to listen to crickets chirping? It sounds kind of like a violin, doesn't it? Only boy crickets chirp--a special way they can attract the girls. When and where can you hear them the best? What happens when you get close to their hiding place?
- Enlighten the mind: Another fun thing about crickets? Their chirps can tell you the temperature outside! Using a stopwatch, count how many chirps you can hear in 14 seconds. Add 40 to this number to get the degrees in Fahrenheit.
- For bonus points: Can you write a number sentence (equation) to help you remember how to tell the temperature from a cricket's chirp?
- Nurture the Spirit: Yesterday, we celebrated the Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist. You can read this story in Matthew 14:1-13 or Mark 6:14-30. How do you think St. John felt? How did Herod feel? What could have been a better way to solve Herod's problem?
Enjoy the cricket songs tonight; maybe even read The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle! We'll see you very soon! Enjoy the long weekend!
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