How to cook Thanksgiving dinner. Kindergarten style!

It is always fun to have the class give their best directions int he kitchen. We are looking forward to Thanksgiving dinner and here is how the boys would get it ready if they were in charge.

The Turkey
Purchase a 5 pound frozen turkey.
Let it that in the refrigerator for 5 days.
Preheat the oven to 7 degrees.
Cover the turkey in salt, dressing, ketchup, pepper, and butter.
Stuff the cavity with  spices, pepper, onions and ranch dressing.
Cook the turkey for 3 hours.
Let the turkey sit for 74 minutes before serving.


Sweet Potato Casserole
Purchase 6 large sweet potatoes.
Peel and boil the sweet potatoes for 10 hours.
Mash them up with mashers.
Add one cup of cubed Swiss cheese, about 2 cups of ketchup, 4 cups for sugar, and 10 cups of pepper.
Top with oil to give it flavor. 
Pour in a casserole dish and cook at 20 degrees for 50 minutes.

Green Beans Casserole
Get 30 cans of green beans.
Pour in bowl and add flavor, fresh tiny green beans, little tiny pieces of rolls, 5 cups of butter and 13 tablespoons of hot sauce.
Pour in casserole dish and cook at 29 degrees for 8 hours.


Stuffing
5 Drops of Ketchup Powder
7 Loaves of Corn Bread
5 Loaves of Rosemary Bread
6 Drops of Mustard
9 tablespoons of pepper
12 sleeves of Saltines
15 Eggs
39 Tablespoons of Butter
10 stalks of Celery
Mix everything together.
Cut the turkey in half. Stuff each side with stuffing. Put the turkey back together so it looks like a whole turkey. Put cheese around it. After the cheese melts it will stick the sides together.
Cook at 400 degrees for 81 minutes.


Pumpkin Pie
The Crust - Use white bread  and  9 sugar cookies. Put them together and make a circle for the crust. Put in a pie dish. Cook at 100 degrees for 19 seconds.
The Filling - Scoop out the inside of 5 baby pumpkins. Add 10 cups of white sugar and 10 cups of brown sugar. Fill the pie crust. Cook at 30 degrees for 31 minutes.
After cooking, top the pie with 20 drops of whipped cream.

Hope you enjoy our special Thanksgiving recipes! Happy Thanksgiving! 

Being Thankful All Year

Thanksgiving Pictures

November is finally here! We all think about what we are thankful for around Thanksgiving but the boys and I think you should remember these things all year long. Here are some thing we are thankful for all the time. 

Reid - My Family
Whit - My cat Holly
Witt - That I have the nicest family in the whole wide world.
Craig - My class and my whole family. I will love them forever.
Will - My friends and my family.
Aadil - My food and water.
Carter - Our hearts
Kevin - The world
Frank - Nature
Renat - This whole country
Madoc - All the states that God gave us
Stephen - That the Native Americans and Pilgrims  found this country so all the people that want to live here can live here.
Noah - My whole family, my cousins, my nanny and grandaddy, and my grandma and grandaddy.
Chris - The whole class and the teachers
Dudley - My dogs, my family and my cousins
Sohum - My whole family,  my pet goldfish, and all the people that live here
Michael - My Parents

Pumpkin KWL

Fall is finally in the air here! The temperatures are finally below 80 and we are ready for some fall weather. One thing that always makes us think of fall is pumpkins. We have started exploring pumpkins this week and thought we would learn something new by making a KWL chart.

K - Here are some thing we KNOW:
Chris - they are hard
Reid - the stem is hard
Witt - you can carve them for Halloween into Jack-O-Lanterns
Sohum - you can get a pumpkin and you can make the face and then you can put a light bulb in to it can glow
Dudley - they are kind of gooey inside
Kevin - they are gross on the inside
Reese - you can use it a lot of different ways
Michael - they are really heavy
Renat - there are a lot of seeds inside
Stephen - the seeds taste like pumpkin pie
Aadil - some are big
Will - farmers grow them
Carter - you can put lanterns inside of them
Craig - they can have sprouts in them and there is lots of yucky stuff in there
Noah - they are so round that you can roll them like a ball
Madoc - some pumpkins have leaves on them stem

W - This is what we WANT to learn/know about pumpkins:
Stephen - Does the size of the seed determine how big the pumpkin will be?
Renat - I wonder if you drop the pumpkin if it will pop or not.
Michael - Are some pumpkins so huge that you have to roll them to move them?
Kevin - If there are a bunch of pumpkins that roll down a hill will they all break?
Reese - If you throw a ball at a pumpkin will it come back or make a hole?
Carter - How many lines are there on pumpkins?
Reid - How big can they get?
Craig - How do the seeds get in the pumpkin?
Sohum - How do the seeds grow the pumpkin?
Frank - How to the pumpkins get the food that helps them grow?
Madoc - I wonder if pumpkin seeds are slimy.
Dudley - I wonder of pumpkins can get gooey on the outside.
Jackson - I wonder if you can draw a jack-o-lantern on paper and then copy it on a pumpkin?
Chris - I wonder if the pumpkin breaks if a dog scratches it.
Will - How do pumpkins grow into different colors?
Noah - Can a pumpkin bounce?

We will post again with the L of our KWL at the end of the month! 

It is November 4th and we are ready to add the L to our KWL chart.
Here is what we L - LEARNED about pumpkins.
Renat - They have a lot of seeds.
Sohum - Outside they are very hard and inside they are smooshy
Madoc - There are lines on pumpkins.
Will - They grow in a field.
Chris - They grow on vines.
Stephen - The stems on orange pumpkins are larger than the stems on green pumpkins.
Witt - There are so many lines you can barely count.
Aadil - The grown seeds inside the pumpkin.
Reid - They get picked by hand.
Michael - I learned that some are so large that you have to roll them to move them.

Fall Break is here!

We have been in school for about two months and it is time for a little break. Our Fall Break is this week and some of the boys are taking fun trips and some are going to have great staycations here at home. Here is what we will be up to on our break. Some have been elaborated a bit and some are accurate. Either way, they are fun to read! 

Jackson - I am going to a football game to see Ole Miss play.
Frank - I am going somewhere that has a lot of rides and I get to go on bumper cars.
Sohum - I am going somewhere to go hand gliding.
Chris - I am going to this big mountain to look at the stars and I am going to a beach where I can go waterskating. Then I am going to this place where I have to sign in to go on a boat trip. Then I am going to a museum and then we are going out to eat. It is going to be a long trip.
Noah - I am going to have a staycation. I will probably go to fun places.
Steven - I am going to go to St. Louis and then I am going to Six Flags. The amusement park not the water park.
Madoc - I am going to Tanzania and New York to visit my cousins.
Reese - I am going to Washington, D.C.
Aadil - I am not going anywhere. I am going to play with my brothers.
Renat - I think my mom said we are going for like a cruise for like 5 days. It has 4 pools.
Carter - I am going to Disney World and my brother is going to have his birthday there.
Kevin - I am going to to go Little Rock to stay at a hotel and eat a bunch of bacon for breakfast.
Reid  - I am going to the lake at my land.
Whit - I am going to Florida and lots of people are going to come with me.
Witt - I am going to the beach and I don't know which one it is but it is the one with Sugar Shack.
Craig - I am going to the Children's Museum water park.
Will - I am going to the Little Red River and I am going fishing there.

Can you tell me how to get...

 

We enjoyed this fun video from Jimmy Fallon and The Roots in class this morning. Sesame Street always makes you feel good! It is something everyone shares a memory of. So I asked the boys....

Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street? Here are their directions. 

Reese - Jump into the television

Will - Go left in an airplane. Then you go straight and you land in Sesame Street. 

Witt - Drive and try find a hidden portal to go in the ground and then you drive to another portal that leads you to Sesame Street. 

Noah - Find a big building and then once you get there you find the secret passage way. Then you shrink down and take the secret passage way to Sesame Street. 

Michael - Go in a magic sewer and then you run through the sewer until you get to the sewer at Sesame Street and then you climb out of the sewer on to Sesame Street. 

Madoc - I think you go to the top of a tall building, look for Sesame Street from there then jump off when you find it. 

Renat - Sit on a chair and the you press a green and red button  and the chair takes you to Sesame Street

Sohum - You can hand glide until you find it and then you can land and jump on your feet. 

Chris - Climb a tall tree with a vine that goes through the sky. Swing on the vine until you land on a cloud over Sesame Street then you jump down. 

Craig - Take an airplane, fly left, then straight, until you get to Sesame Street in Alabama. 

Whit- Take an airplane to Sesame Street. 

We all love Sesame Street here in SK and here are some of our favorite memories:

Kevin - You can make friends with the Sesame Street people. 

Michael - I like to see Oscar

Carter - I would like to sleep in Big Birds nest. 

Will - Going to see Elmo's World. 

Witt - Cookie Monster

Reese - I like to watch Cookie Monster eat cookies. 

Stephen - I would like to live in a trash can like Oscar. 

Reid - I like Snuffy. 

 

Goodbye Summer! Hello Fall!

We are all ready to say goodbye summer here in Memphis! It has been hot, hot, hot and we are ready for some fall temperatures. As we wave goodbye to Summer 2013 we would like to share some of our favorite memories. The Fall season begins on Sunday so we are also going to share what we are looking forward to in Fall 2013!

Favorite Summer Memories 2013:

Kevin - going to Mexico for my birthday

Michael - swimming in my pool

Madoc - playing with my mom

Stephen - water park

Dudley - going to a really fun water park

Renat - going in the pool while I was on vacation

Reese - going to Destin a lot

Aadil - playing basketball with my brothers

Carter - playing basketball

Jackson - playing soccer

Whit - spending time with my family

Witt - going to the Children's Museum

Will - playing T-ball

Chris - going to my Grandma's house and getting a toy dragon at the toy store

Frank - having my birthday

Craig - playing all kinds of sports

Reid - going to the lake

Sohum - going to the Delta Fair

Here is what we are looking forward to this Fall:

Michael - jumping in the leaves when they fall down

Craig - going to the Children's Museum and going to my Nana's

Frank - raking leaves with my dad

Kevin - getting ready for Christmas

Chris - jumping in all the leaves

Stephen - Trick-or-Treating

Reese - Fall Break

Madoc - decorating my house for Halloween

Jackson - Halloween

Witt - Halloween

Will - carving a Jack-o-lantern

Reid - dressing up for Halloween

Aadil - seeing the leaves fall down

Carter - playing with the leaves

Witt - decorating my playhouse in the backyard for Halloween

Are you ready for some football?

The football season is upon us! The boys in my class love to talk sports and football is a hot topic these days. We have lots of favorite teams in here and here is a list of who we are rooting for this season! 

Kevin - New Orleans Saints and LSU Tigers
Frank - Alabama
Craig - Dallas Cowboys
Michael - NY Giants and the Ole Miss Rebels
Madoc - NY Giants
Stephen - Steelers and the Memphis Tigers
Noah - NY Giants
Chris - Memphis Tigers
Aadil - Memphis Tigers and Baltimore Ravens
Renat - Memphis Tigers
Reese - Alabama
Dudley - Memphis Tigers
Carter - Tennessee Vols and Memphis Tigers
Reid - Oakland Raiders and the Memphis Tigers
Whitt - I don't watch football
Witt - Tennessee Vols
Sohum - Memphis Tigers
Will - Memphis Tigers & Ole Miss

Mrs. Thomas - Steelers
Mrs. Perry - Memphis Tigers and Florida Gators