Ten Friends

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December Art

Turkey Cookbooks

Turkey

Cookbook

2018

By the Armour Kindergarten Class

As told to their teacher - Mrs. Preheim

The Armour Kindergarten Class would like to give you a few pointers on how to prepare your Thanksgiving turkey and they had some ideas of what else they would like to eat at their feast.  Enjoy! 

“Grandpa goes hunting in the forest for Wild Turkeys or Ring-necked Pheasants.  He peels the skin off and he goes home and gets ready cook it.  Uncle Austin puts bacon and ham on top.  Then he puts strawberry sprinkles and ketchup on it too.  Then it goes on the stove for 20 minutes.

We eat our turkey with beef jerky, strawberry meat, bacon, carrots, and soup.  For dessert we would have pumpkin pie!”

By Maxwell Karr

“We will buy a turkey at the store.  It will cost $20.00.  Mama will cook the turkey.  She will put it in a pan.  Then she will put pepper and salt on it.  Then she will put It in the oven.

At dinner we will eat pepperoni pizza, cucumbers, bananas, and macaroni and cheese.  We will have pink cupcakes for dessert.”

By Romina Pulido

“I go hunting for Wild Turkeys with my dad.  We got one at Sioux Falls.  My dad puts it in a bag and takes it home.  My mom always makes the food.  She puts the turkey in a pan and I help her.  I put mustard on top and sugar.  Then we will put some little cereals on top.  Then it goes in the stove for 45 minutes.

We will also eat bananas, pepperoni pizza, apples, and pumpkin pie for dessert.”

Jacob Fousek

 “My dad is going to shoot two turkey in the woods.  He will pick off the feathers and scrub its back with a wet paper towel. 

My mom and grandma will cut it up and put it in a pan.  Then they will put Dorothy Lynch sauce on top.  It will go in the oven for 6 hours.  The oven will be 14 degrees.  It is done when the bell rings.

We will eat our turkey with chocolate doughnuts, super nachos, football cheese, apples, corn, bananas, and for dessert we will have two apple pies!”

By Aleah Wright

“We will get our turkey at the store.  It will cost a lot of dollars.  My mom will cook the turkey because my dad doesn’t like to cook dinner. 

First, she puts lettuce on top and then something healthy like bananas.  Then she will put it in the oven.  It will be 11 degrees and it will cook for 11 minutes.

We will eat it with bananas, apples, hot dog buns, lettuce salad, and cheese pizza.  For dessert, we will have chocolate chip cookies.”

Brayden Vogt

We will get our turkey from the kitchen.  First, dad puts the turkey in a pan.  Then he sprinkles sugar on it and puts it in the oven for 10 minutes. 

We will also eat bananas, buns, cheese pizza, fish, and for dessert I’d like to have chocolate chip bars.”

By Brooklyn Werkmeister

“Mommy will buy the turkey at the store.  It will weigh 7 pounds and it will cost $7.00.  My mommy will put chocolate sprinkles and ham on top of it.  She will put it in the oven for 3 minutes.

At our supper we will eat chicken, cheese, mac and cheese, and for dessert we will have cereal.”

By Caitlyn Shulaw

“My mom and dad will buy a turkey at the store and it will weigh 6 pounds and cost $4.00 probably.  My mom and dad will put the turkey in a pan.  Then they will put salt, pepper and cheese on top.  They will bake it for 10 minutes.  Our smoke alarm rings when it is done.

I would like to eat it with the chicken soup that my grandma makes.  I would also like to have apples, oranges, corn on the cob, cherries, cheese and pepperoni pizza.  For dessert, we would have a unicorn cake!  It is delicious!  We would have strawberry pie and pumpkin pie too!”

By Sutton Powell

“First you put the turkey in a big pan.  Then you could put pink sprinkles on top.  Shake on some salt and pepper.  Put it on the stove to cook for 5 minutes. 

We will eat it with corn, doughnuts, M&M yogurt and pink cupcakes.”

By Berkley Wright

” We would get the turkey at the store.  We will get a 100-pound turkey.  Dad and mom will put it in a pan and they’ll put oil on the turkey.  Then they would shake on some pepper, salt and put tomatoes on top.  Then they put it in a 20-degree oven for 5 minutes. 

We would also have cherries, cheese balls, grapes, apples, chips and water.  We will have pumpkin pie for dessert!”

By Marlena Blaine

Happy

Thanksgiving!

Bird Feeder Complex - Complete!

Here are the kindergartners by the new
bird feeder complex.

Our Bird Feeder Complex is complete and open for business!  Today we had our ribbon-cutting ceremony.  The kindergartners and last year's kindergartners came out to the lake today to join the SkillsUSA teens to listen to Mr. Barker and I say a few words.  Then after the ribbon cutting, the president of the Community Club announced that we are the "Citizens of the Month" for our town!  They also donated $200 for bird seed and some members volunteered to help fill the feeders.  Yay!  What a day!

Here's a photo of all of the students that had 
a hand in this project.  The older students put a lot
of hard work into it, so a big thank you to these teens! 

The kindergartners and 1st graders were checking out the
seed and wondering how the birds get the
seeds out.  I love their curiosity!

I explained to the young students that this is very special
and we will need to take good care of it.  I told them that
they should stay outside of the circle when they visit and
not touch the feeders.  I reminded them that they needed
to be like a ninja when they come to watch the birds being
slow and quiet, so as not to frighten the birds away.

We had very nice weather for this event!

Here is the crowd listening to Mr. Barker speak.

Here is the actual ribbon-cutting by a 1st grade girl.

Eden is announcing that that these students are the
"Citizens of the Month" for November!

Hallway Bird Display

We have been working on color words and adjectives, so there is no better subject that beautiful birds!  The kindergartners loved choosing a bird photo and describing it.  I've noticed that young students never mind writing about what they love!

Veteran's Day Program

Our school puts on a very nice Veteran's Day Program for the community.  Here are the elementary students singing their song.  I love to hear them sing!  The bottom photo is our Veteran's Day art for the lunch room.

Blue Ribbon School Celebration

Our high school received an award as a National Blue Ribbon School and we had a celebration.  Here is a {blurry} photo of all of our K-12 students.  In 2008, our Elementary School received the honor.  We are the only school in South Dakota where the elementary and high school both received the award!  

I Can Handle It!

The Guidance counselor visits with the kindergartners every Thursday afternoon.  He read this book to the children and I borrowed it, so we could work on these strategies.  It is a good book that teaches kids that sometimes things don't go their way, but that's okay.  Just say, "I can handle it!"  If you hear your child say that at home, you'll know where that comes from.  You may want to praise them for saying that phrase and handling the situation.

Patriotic Songs

Our morning routine is to say the "Pledge of Allegiance" and sing a patriotic song or two.  I have taught them the following songs:

This Land is Your Land
You're a Grand Ol' Flag
America
This Is My Country
God Bless America
I'm Proud To Be An American

Two Artists

At the end of the day during free time, these two boys decided to draw huge trucks that were hauling pigs.  They worked so hard on their drawings, that I decided to share them with you.  11-7-18

A Superhero Surprise

On November 2nd, the 1st graders joined us as we had a visit from a publisher.  She read us a very good book titled, A Superhero Surprise, written by Danika Gordon, a teen-aged author.  American Family Insurance made sure that each child could have a copy of this book that teaches children to make good choices and be a superhero each day.

Halloween Day

They looked so cute in their Halloween costumes!

Here they are being a little crazy!

For this game the kindergartners bowled down
tissue paper rolls with a small pumpkin.

The kids thought this was fun!

This was the Mr. Ghost game that the children loved.  The ghost/child
had their back to the others.  The others would say, "Mr. Ghost!  Mr. Ghost! 
What time is it?"  The ghost would said something like, "3 o'clock!" 
The kids would take three steps closer to the ghost.  This would continue
until the group of kids got closer then the ghost would say,
"Time to eat you!" Then he'd turn around and try to catch them! 
Oh my!  They were excited!

They had pizza, cupcakes and juice pouches for their lunch. 

They Know 77!

Pumpkin Carving

Each year we talk about the life cycle of various plants and animals.  This was the perfect time to talk about the pumpkin.  Then they helped me prepare the pumpkin for carving.  Some kids like to dig in and some do not, but we get it done.

Each year we talk about the life cycle of various plants and animals.  This was the perfect time to talk about the pumpkin.  Then they helped me prepare the pumpkin for carving.  Some kids like to dig in and some do not, but we get it done.

This is the pumpkin that I carved in school.

New Field Guides!

 A surprise package came in the mail for the kindergartners!  A very kind person, who likes my bird program, donated $200 for me to buy a bird field guide for each of my students this year and next year.

This bird field guide is titled, "Birds of the Dakotas"
by Stan Tekiela.  I like that this field guide has
color tabs, so when a child sees a red bird
he goes to the red tabs and looks for his bird.

The kindergartners were so happy as they looked
through their very own field guide.  This
book will stay in the classroom until the end of
the school year.  That way we can put it to
good use and they will be very familiar with
it when they bring it home.

I loved all of the enthusiasm and smiles in the room!

"Look!  A Great Horned Owl!"

They loved the field guides!

Now it was time to make thank-you cards.

I was impressed with their drawings of birds!

Here's the crew with their new, bird field guides!