The last month in APAS has flown by! November brought lots of change: time change, leaves falling, temperatures dropping and losing a partial week of APAS together due to Thanksgiving break. Kelsey joined the Afterschool Play Team and Naomi left for maternity leave (Baby Leila (pronounced Layla) was born 11/18!) With the change of seasons becoming more obvious to us, the falling leaves became one of our most abundant loose parts! We saw leaf fights, kids raking and jumping in to the leaves and putting the leaves into a plastic pool! But then, just like that, the leaves all blew away! From there we shifted into Mad Scientist Week! We practiced our Naturalist skills and then did a few exp