Downtown Decorating Fun

Check out the Methodist Church Yard!  

We had so much fun with our corn candy items.

FLY SWATTER FUN!!!

We are learning long vowel a words.  We know that you can spell a long vowel a

with an 'ai' in the middle of the word.  Another way to spell long vowel a words is with the 'ay' at the end of the word.  The last way we have learned is with the sneaky e that makes the vowel a say the long name.

Here are pictures showing the fun time we had swatting long vowel a words.

Fire Prevention

October is fire prevention month.  Our local fire fighters came with trucks and practice equipment to stress how important is is to be prepared. 

Here are things we learned.

1.  Stop, drop, and roll if your clothes are on fire.

2.  Use the back of your hand to feel if a door is hot.

3.  When the smoke alarm goes off, crawl low to the ground and get out of the house.

4.  Don't go back into the house for your pet or toy.  Get out and STAY OUT!

5.  Run to the fire fighter if you are trapped in the house.  They are there to help keep us save.

6.   Call 911 from your safe spot where your family plans to meet.

Here are our pictures.

Family Fun Night

October 4th second graders had their family fun night.  We had a great turn out with parents and students having fun.  We had parents partner with their child and read an AR book.  After reading the book, "Farmer

Gus and the Very Big Sneeze," they took an AR test.  Everybody's score was terrific.

Camden and mom reading.

The Mitchell family.

Reata with mom and dad.

Makayla reading with mom.

Little sister doing her own thing while Monica reads.

Sierra and mom reading about Farmer Gus.

Novah showing dad her great reading skills.

Jerzi reading with her dad.

 Our next activity was the famous second grade pumpkin roll race across the gym.  This year we added a twist.  Not only did they have to roll the pumpkins, but they had to build corn candy 3 digit numbers.

Reata and mom finding the third piece of the candy corn number.

We finished the night with cookies and a drink.  

  Thanks for coming.

Apple Stacking STEM activity

Our Late Start STEM activity was dealing with apples.  After reading the story, "Ten Apples Up

On Top," we tried to walk around the room with ONE apple on our head.  Not easy to do!

Next we tried stacking our apples, yes they were fake apples, like the characters in the story did.  This wasn't easy either.

Landon and Brody giving it a try.

Monica and Makayla working.

Jerzi and Sierra working as a great team until Jerzi let go and down it came.

"Oh No," said Reata.  "We have to start again."  Camden doesn't look to happy about going again.

"I had it," said Juan, "until Payton let go."

The most we could successfully stack on top were three little apples.  When we added a fourth one, it always toppled over.

Channing and Fisher getting their play dough ready to stack again!

"Ok Mrs. Butler, this isn't easy.  We had three and down they went," said Avery as she and Novah try once more.

DAY AT THE RANCH

Our day at Jeff and Cheryl Sowder's ranch was, "just the best day ever I heard one of my students say."  I agree!!  Here are some pictures that show just how special our day was.  The weather was beautiful, food delicious, and facts about farming and ranching were fun to learn.

We started with Doc Kailey teaching that horses need to see a dentist and have their teeth floated.  That means they need to be filed down or they keep growing. Yes, a veterinarian does dental work too!

Next we put on gloves and felt inside the boxes to see what a calf would feel like as it grows inside the mother cow.  "Yuck" we all said but did what we were asked to do.  It wasn't that bad when she told us what she used to simulate a baby calf growing.

We tried our hand at roping a calf.  We made a loop, twirled it through the air, and hoped we caught the head of the calf.

Monica is giving it a try.

Reata getting help.

Payton caught!!

When is a cow more than a cow?

We learned that we don't just eat the beef but use other parts of the animal.  If you wear make-up you better thank a cow!  You mean Mrs. Butler wears a cow on her face??!!!!  Our glue stick comes from a cow! Footballs, soccer balls, and baseballs are made from a cow. Bandages, marshmallows, jello  and many many other items are all products from other parts of cattle.  Wow!  We can't go a single day with our thanking a cattle rancher for raising cattle.

We looked at different grains grown in Kansas.  Wheat, soy beans, oats, and corn are some of the grains grown here in Kansas.

Greenwood County puts up a lot of hay.  The FFA guys, Gideon,  Walker,  and our team leader Tanner talked about the swather.   We got to climb up inside and take a look.

Lunch was provided from many agricultural organization.  Sure was good eating that ALL BEEF hot dog.

The favorite thing of the day was having Tinkerbell show up with her trailer and give us a demonstration of how she is milked twice a day.  We even saw her "chew he cud."

While we were watching she gave us 3 gallons of milk.

During our afternoon, we took a hay rack ride up and down the country roads.  Mr Sowder knows that Mrs. Butler likes to go fast.  So we had a great, fast, dusty ride!
Next Luke took us on a nature walk showing the grasses and RAGWEED that grow on the Kansas prairies. 

We returned to school tired, dusty and dirty but glad for all the hard work that was done to make our day GREAT!!
THANKS go to Kim Douglas with Farm Bureau for organizing the day and of course the Sowders for allowing us to invade their ranch.

Mrs. Davison, Mrs. Butler and Mrs. Neill