Right now Crestwood OE is registered as a personal account rather than as a business, and because Facebook requires a birthdate and gender to create an account, "Crestwood OE" is listed as a 24-year-old female with an October birthday and a lumpy apple from our school orchard in the profile pic. It is what it is, but at least it's free. I also created a page for OE as an organization, but it's still brand new, with only a brief description of our organization and some photos taken at the beginning of the school year. I'm sure I'll get more FB savvy as spring rolls on, but for now, know that we finally do have a presence there, and please friend us and follow us.
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Meanwhile, we had another cold week in Madison, too cold to do much outside, though I did notice by Friday morning the before-school recess was outside despite temps a bit below zero; I suspect everyone was feeling desperate to be out in the sunshine even if it was bitterly cold. Additionally, the Crestwood Caper (big fun fair fundraiser) is coming up next weekend, so classes have been busy making decorations and posters to prepare for that.
But even though I don't have anything brand new to share, I do have some student writing by Ms. Handa's 4th graders from back in the fall after an activity with pumpkins harvested from the school gardens. (Better late than never, right?)
The photos interspersed with the text are all from the woods, where Ms. Handa's class disposed of the pumpkins after the group activity. You can see that various critters quickly found the pumpkins and had a nibble or two!
Please note that all grammar and spelling appears as originally written:
Ms. Handa's 4th grade class, and there budy's Mrs. Kenidy's 3rd grade class did a fun activity. And They pulled pumkin guts out off a pumpkin! They then took the seeds off the guts. They seperaded the seeds in to groups of ten. The final stage was to count eh groups of ten. Group 1 had 480, group 2 574, and group 3 590. All together there was 1,644. We had lots of fun! (Adrian)