What Do You Do on a Hot Friday Afternoon?

Ellianna has the perfect idea on that hot Friday afternoon.  She brought her snow cone machine and made snow cone treats for everyone.

YUMMY!

We all enjoyed Ellianna's creation and went home with BLUE tongues!

Thank you Deakan for being the photographer for this shot.

Field Trip to the Ranch

On Tuesday, September 6, Greenwood County 2nd Graders traveled to the Sowder Ranch and had a Day on the Farm.  The morning  was spent moving around the different stations, ran by FFA, FCCLA, Cattlemen, and Cattlewomen.  At every station we learned about the different parts of farm and ranch life. After lunch, 2nd Graders leaned how a cow was milked.  We watched a live cow, Jitterbug, get milked.  Cool!  We also enjoyed the nature walk learning about the various types of grasses that grow in Greenwood County. Our favorite part of the day was the hayrack ride down the country roads.

Cash learning to rope just like the cowboys.

Cash almost caught!!

Jade teaching Xaiden to rope.

Jerry swings his rope.

Dr. Droge showed the skulls of a horse and steer and we compared and contrasted the two.

Tractor fun.  

Jerry is smaller than the tire!

Mrs. Butler and the boys.

FFA and the wildlife of Kansas

Beyond the Beef
Marshmallows, hand lotion, lip stick, and crayons, are some of the items that come from beef that we use daily.

One hide of a cow gives us leather for shoes, boots, football, basketballs, and so much more.

Another station had us working as pumpkin farmers and learning how to raise a health crop of pumpkins.

The Day was wonderful and we thank Farm Bureau for planning our fun filled day. A HUGE thank you goes to Jeff and Cheryl Sowder for inviting us to their ranch!!!

Chickens in School???

 Yes we had BABY CHICKS visit our classroom!  Tiya and Nancy from Farm Bureau brought chicks for us to see, touch, and learn cool facts about the chickens that are raised on Kansas farms.

 Tiya, pictured on the right, has made several visits starting with our Day at the Farm at Sowder's Ranch, to a once a month visit in our classrooms.  Each month she has brought us information from a program that Farm Bureau shares with the Greenwood County Second Graders entitled, "KANSAS GROWS A PIZZA."  We have learned about the wheat industry, dairy farming, cattle ranches, pork producers, and today chickens.  All these farm products are grown or raised in Kansas and can turn up on top of a delicious pizza.

 Farm Bureau also sponsored a "Farm Safety Poster Contest."  Children decided what part of farm safety that wanted to draw, color, and label on their posters to remind us how to keep safe if we visit or live on a farm or ranch.  Miley  received honorable mention on her poster about not playing on large round bales of hay.  Cyrus won 2nd place with his poster on keeping safe with downed power lines.  Their posters, as well as the other second graders posters are on display at our grocery store.  They both won a Sonic gift certificate.  Hooray!

Hannah won first place with her safety poster about keeping safe around her dad's pickup truck when is it hooked to their cattle or horse trailer.  Her poster has made the trip to Kansas State University to compete with all students throughout the state at our primary level.  Yippee, hope Hannah's poster wins her level.  I will keep you posted what we find out!!!  She won $10 for her hard work.   *****We have just learned that Hannah got honorable mention with her poster at the state level.  WE ARE Proud OF HER!!!

                                                

Tiya and Nancy returned for our final lesson on "Kansas Grows a Pizza."  The last item that every pizza needs in the tasty tomato sauce.  Everyone was able to plant tomato plants, pepper plants, and basil seeds.  What a wonderful time we have had and we thank Farm Bureau for making the many visits.

Howdy-DO!  (That's Alvin the Alligator's way of saying hello.)  February 19th the second graders and their teachers  went to Butler County Community College in El Dorado to the Children's Theatre.  "Alvin" made and unexpected trip into outer space.  His rocket visited the planet of Duoluna.  He met a whole new group of friends that he taught the lesson of, "It's nice to be important, but more important to be nice."  We really enjoyed the trip with Alvin and even more exciting was being allowed to come up on stage and get our pictures with the cast from the play.

Bug Lady Visits Marshall

January 21st the BUG LADY gave us some chills, thrills, and yes we touched several animal that we normally would NEVER have the opportunity to see up close or TOUCH!!!!!