Pickle Day!

Today was the famous Pickle Day in Kindergarten in honor of the letter Pp! Here we are with our pickle hats!

 And... a side view!

 We read the story Pickle Things by Marc Brown and then made a class book about Pickle Things that we would never see.

 A before picture. We taste tested dill pickles (17/19 kids liked), sweet gherkins (not popular at all!), bread and butter pickles (a little more popular that sweet gherkins) and dill potato chips (also very popular!). We all had pickle breath for the rest of the day!

 The photos below are from our Pickle Day taste testing!

Spider Soup!

Another Letter Ss week tradition...making Spider Soup!

We headed to Mrs. OL's classroom as she has a secret family recipe for making a special spider soup!

The kids checking out the soup after the soup starter was put in along with spider parts and dried cobwebs!

Here is what it looked like while it was heating up in the crock pot. Can everyone say "YUMMY"

Trying the soup. We discussed how I would never give the students something to eat that was not good for them and that everyone should try it (after I tried it and said I liked it:)

Almost everyone liked it and ate it all! We thought it tasted a little like chicken and we were surprised that the dried webs really softened up while cooking! We had some great discussions about the soup!

Spider Hats!

In honor of S week in kindergarten we made spider hats!

That is a lot of eyes looking at you!

Some crazy faces spiders! Got to love them!

Apple Donuts!

During our field trip to Apple Jack Orchards, we could have signed up for each of us to get an apple donut at an extra cost. We were trying to save some money so we were just going to buy an apple treat to bring back to school to share with everyone.

However...the tour group before us did not show up so the folks at the apple orchard were super kind and gave us donuts to bring back to school with us to munch and crunch.

We ate them for snack the next school day.

They were Yummy! Thank you Apple Jacks!

Apple Jack Apple Orchard

We normally head to Carlson's Apple Orchard in Winsted but they were not giving tours this year so we decided to head to Apple Jack Orchard in Delano.

Happy kids riding on the bus!

We got the back of the bus...it's a little bumpy!

This is Carol, the leader for field trips. She greeted us and told us what we would be learning today!

Our first stop was Bee School. We learned how bees help the apple trees!

A bee heading to check out the blossoms on the apple trees.

After the blossoms fall off of the apple tree, the apples start to grow!

We also learned how the apple pickers pick the apples off the tree in a safe way that won't hurt the trees or the apples and we got to see the special apple picking bags that they use.

Our 2nd stop...a wagon ride through the orchard. Our tractor driver talked the whole way through the ride but we had a hard time hearing him because of the loud noise of the tractor and the blowing wind! But, we all had a grand time!

Our last stop...we learned how apple trees change from season to season.

It was a little chilly and windy at our last stop!

We also got to taste test 2 different kinds of apples and...

We got to try apple cider. 

After lunch, we got to spend a little time playing at the orchard!

What a cute photo!

Jumping on the hale bales.

The bus ride back to school. 

We had a great time. It was cold and windy but we learned a lot and had a marvelous time!