It’s OWL Good in Mrs. Nelson’s       Class! 9-19-14

This week we learned about apples. We talked about all the things that you can make from apples, the different colors apples can be and that they can be more than one color! Before we made our applesauce on Friday, I asked the kids how they thought applesauce was made. That was my favorite part of the week!  I will be finishing their recipes today and will send it home on Monday. A lot of the kids must help or see you cooking at home because they sure could tell me what ingredients were and thought eggs, salt, pepper, flour, etc. all went into applesauce!

I brought my apple peeler/ slicer today and the kids loved using it! We cut and peeled about 25 apples. The best part of the apple (for most kids) was the peeling! The peel comes off in one LONG piece and the kids loved it! They were almost fighting over it! Most of the apples went into making the applesauce, but we kept out a few to taste test and vote on. Zane’s green apple won for the best tasting apple! Then we added brown sugar, cinnamon and water and turned on the crock pot. At snack time I mashed the apples and we ate the applesauce! Most tried it, and most of those kids liked it. We ran out of time to record if we liked it (we will finish it on Monday), but I’m sure they will tell you tonight!

We also had our first day of 4th Grade Buddies. I will send home a list on Monday of who everyone’s buddies are. (I didn’t have time at the end of the day and don’t want to post last names on my blog). Every Friday we will have Buddy Time before lunch.

This week for Intervention (AKA “Camp”) I kept a few kids to work on writing the letters in their name. I will probably end up keeping everyone at some point to do a little “fine tuning” on their name. When the kids don’t stay with me, they go to Mrs. Otte’s room. They have been learning some sign language this week with her. (I will be sending home a “sign language cheat sheet” on Monday.)

We also made an apple tree today. First, we painted a paper towel tube, then crumpled a green piece of paper, and then painted on some apples. They are decorating the space above our coat hooks right now.

Every week I will be sending home a book from the reading series that we have read in class and read to a buddy. Your child’s homework is to read to at least one adult, but encouraged to read it as much as possible (I even told them to read it to their dog, cat, guinea pig, baby sister…). Please sign the book somewhere and send it back to school. (There is a part on the report about parent involvement, so please do your part!) They can then choose if they want to take it back home with them, or keep it in their book box to read during the day.

Next week we will still be learning about apples!

A picture with our 4th Grade Buddies!