Happy Birthday Johnny Appleseed!!

To celebrate Johnny Appleseed's birthday today we threw him a birthday party complete with all apple snacks! We even made homemade applesauce! And our room smelled amazing all day!!

Aggie Day

This week our high school football team plays our rival Boaz. To get ready for this game we had Aggie Day today. We are ready to cheer on our team tomorrow night!!

Apple Craft

We made these cute apple crafts to hang in our room and get in the apple spirit this week. It helps that my classroom theme is apples!!

World School Milk Day

We sported our milk mustaches yesterday in honor of school milk day!

Penny War

This is such a busy week with Johnny Appleseed, farm day AND Penny War!! Don't forget to send your change to help our class win! Pennies count 1 point each but silver money takes points away!! And so far it looks like someone has it out for us! Our bucket is full of silver and cash!! :)

This will go on until Friday. Also, don't forget that Friday is Farm Day. Check the weather and dress your child appropriately. Make sure they have on comfortable shoes and clothes they can get dirty in! We will be walking around outside with plenty of animals to see!! I can't wait and neither can the kiddos.

Classmade Butter

Last week to get ready for farm day we put cream In a bowl and SHOOOOOOKKKK until we had our own homemade butter! The kids were very impressed!! 

Johnny Appleseed

Ahhhh!!! My favorite time of the year...FALL! I just love everything about fall cool weather, football, and of course apples! This week we celebrate Johnny Appleseed's birthday by learning about him, making crafts and trying plenty of yummy apple treats. To start our week we read the story about the little house with no doors, no windows, and a star inside.

Then we made apple projects at home. The kids were told to be creative and make something, anything, from an apple. And they did a fabulous job!

For our last activity yesterday, we cut up an apple and placed a piece in 6 different cups. We added, water, honey, apple, juice, grape juice, orange juice and air to the cups to see which would keep the apples from turning brown.

We voted on which we thought would do the best and our decision was that the honey would work the best. We recorded our predictions in our science journals means checked back today to see what worked. 

We found that orange juice did the best!

Milk a cow experiment

Today we got to "milk a cow" in class! We watched a video about real farmers milking cows and learned a little of the history then we went outside to practice! 

Spelling Words

We have a spelling test each Friday. The spelling words for the week are always in your child's fluency folder and on our blog under the classroom tab. Please study these words each night with your child.

Happy Grandparents Day!!

Thank you to all the wonderful grandparents who came to visit us today! We had a great turn out and the kids were so excited!!