During their Integrated Learning and Information Science (ILIS) classes, JK students have been learning about apples, Halloween, leaves, pumpkins and the Fall season. We read several books that focus on the changing of seasons and on the changes we are seeing all around us as we move into Fall. We talked about Fall pumpkins and the changing of colors on leaves.  JKers created talking pumpkins to describe their favorite thing about the Fall season.

One of the books we read was a selection called Leaves. Leaves is a children's picture book by David Ezra Stein about a young bear experiencing his first autumn. When the leaves fall, the bear tries to put them back on the trees, but eventually, he burrows into the leaf pile for a long winter nap. When he wakes up in the spring, the trees are covered in new leaves, and he joyfully greets the new season.