Happy Halloween!

Halloween is one of our favorite holidays in second grade! It is so great to get all dressed up in our costumes and have tons of fun! This teacher loves seeing everyone out of their regular uniforms to become soldiers, kitty cats, Tinker Bell and the likes of many more cute and awesome characters! :)

We started our day with an awesome acting chapel where we learned that God can give us the power to conquer our fears! After chapel, each class came up on stage so the whole school could see all the great costumes of each class! We then paraded through the halls of middle school and ended up back at our class to PARTY! :)

We had tons of fun racing in the "Pumkin Roll!" Five kids at a time raced against each other to see who could roll their pumpkin with their broom the fastest!

It was a close race but this little "jailbird" won the grand finale competition! :)

Then it was time to design our own caramel apples. We had every topping you could think of which made for some pretty artistic and creative looking apples! :) YUMMO! We also enjoyed our fresh apple cider that we made the day before at the apple ranch and ate many other goodies our hosts and hostesses brought in for our party.

We finished our fun morning by watching Charlie Brown's "Great Pumpkin"! Everyone was excited to head out to the Harvest Festival later that afternoon. :) It was another perfect day in second grade full of fun, laughs and lots of memories made! :)

The Apple Ranch Field Trip!

We had such a great time traveling to Los Rios Apple Ranch in Oak Glenn. We were blessed with a cold, crisp perfect Fall day and were so excited to be out of the classroom and enjoying God's gorgeous creation.

We were so excited to find icicles hanging from the trees when we arrived. It was so cold the night before that it froze the water from the sprinklers! Too cool! :)

We met Johnny Appleseed who took us on a tour of the orchard. He told us all about the ranch, how apples grow and even about the "neighborly" bear who lives in the area. Above is a picture of Arkansas Black apples growing in the orchard. YUM! We found out that this was Walt Disney's favorite apple and was the reason why he used it as THE apple in the movie Snow White.

The apple packing house is the original packing house on the ranch. It is still used today to clean, pack and store the apples for the season.

Ben's mom and Mr. K volunteered to sort the bad apples out from the good ones. It was a lot harder than they thought...but they did a great job! :)

The apples we chose were brought back to school for our caramel apple making party the next day!

In the packing house there is a very cold walk-in refrigerator where the apples are stored for the season. It was freezing for the second graders but felt ohhh so good to their teacher! :)

Mrs. K wishes she could keep the classroom this cold all year through! :)

We learned that the non-organic apples we eat from the grocery store can be anywhere from 6 months to 5 years old! :( Can you believe that? I guess that's why the fresh apples from here taste soooo good!!! Anyone wanna help Mrs. K plant an apple tree outside our classroom? ;) hee hee

After the packing house, we headed to the little farm area. We loved the baby goat and laughed at the rooster who was happy and content on the piggy's back! :) We learned that there are many WILD animals in the area including bobcats and bears.

We then headed to the cider making station and made our very own apple cider! Mayanie's and Hannah's dad's helped crank the old cider press as we threw in apples to be crushed! It was so much fun making FRESH apple cider.

Mrs. K was so bummed that she did not charge her camera battery before the field trip and therefore missed that part of our tour! Lesson learned! :) But she knows there are AWESOME parents out there who took great pictures of the day. If you have any pictures you'd like to share from the day, please feel free to pass them on to Mrs. K! :)

Thank you to all the wonderful parents who helped to drive and chaperone on our field trip. We wouldn't be able to experience such a great day without YOU! :)

Meet Miss Meghan!

I’d like to introduce to you Miss Meghan who will be working in our classroom this year. She is a student at APU and is studying to be a teacher. She will be working closely with the students and me this year to gain more experience as a teacher and meet the requirements she needs for her education. She has already begun working in our classroom and has made a wonderful positive impact in our class. As you can see in the last picture, the kids already LOVE Meghan! :) She is a wonderful addition to our class!

Who Were You Rooting For?

Did ya see the results in our first poll? Oh yeah!!! The Dodger's won!!! They got 6 out of the 10 votes! :) hee hee Woo! Hoo! :) Too bad those Dodger's couldn't win in the playoffs!

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Thanks for voting! Make sure you take part in our new poll! :)

What Can You Do With An Apple?

Boy, when I said have fun and be creative with this project...you all really DID! :) I was so excited to see all of your incredible apple ideas! What impressed me the most was how each of you used your awesome imagination to create your own unique project. Not one project was exactly the same! I love how different God makes us to think of individual creative ways to have fun with apples! :) You all did an amazing job!!! :) Thank you for working so hard and creating such wonderful projects with your apples! Way to go!!