Fall has arrived in Chicago. I must say that I am pretty obsessed with this season! We are truly experiencing a real fall! The trees and leaves are beautiful and the chilly weather has been nice. It's getting pretty cold in the evenings and nights but I guess we better get use to it!
Teaching my students about fall has been really fun. They can go outside and see and feel exactly what we have been talking about in class. We've gone on nature walks and collected fall leaves. The neighborhood park we walk to every day has been especially beautiful during this season.
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| Fall day at the park with my students |
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| Gorgeous day |
I'm really enjoying my teaching position here. I have a great co-teacher that I work with and a neat school. There is no playground at our school but like I said, we get to walk to neighborhood parks for our recess time. Luckily, my school is right across from the Lincoln Park Zoo. This zoo is a free zoo in the middle of a huge park in the city next to the lake. We can take our class there any day we want to. We usually go once a week. It's very neat! I wish I could share all the great pictures I have of my kids but for privacy issues, I can't. But I will share this cute one at the zoo.
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| My students checking out the gorilla on one of our weekly walks to the zoo. |
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| Our view walking from our school to the zoo and duck ponds! (taken a month ago) |
This past weekend we went with some friends to a pumpkin patch outside of the city. We found a Groupon for it and thought it'd be pretty fun and something to do. We had so much fun! The pumpkin patch was located at a monastery and high school in Aurora, IL. It seemed like a bigger version of Cistercian (Patrick's high school). They do the pumpkin patch to raise money during the fall. It was much more than a pumpkin patch, though. There were tractor/ hay rides, a petting zoo, corn maze, and more. Check out the pictures... it was tons of fun!
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Abbey Farms pumpkin patch with our friends Neena and Becky
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| Our pumpkins |
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| We made it through the corn maze! |
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| My baby pumpkin |
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| Pumpkins everywhere! |
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Petting Zoo
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Of course the best thing about fall is football season! Patrick, Bentley, and I have been enjoying watching our Horns play. We are getting very excited about going home to Dallas this weekend for the Texas/OU game! Hook 'em! Can't wait to see friends and family!
Until next time,
