South West Dairy Farmers

On Wednesday, April 18th, the students were called outside to watch a presentation from SouthWest Dairy Farmers. They learned all about dairy and the various types of cows. The students learned where milk comes from, how to milk a cow, about the utters, and even got to watch a representative show them the steps of getting milk. At the end of the presentation, the students were shown how the milking machines are attached to the cow's utters and how the cow can produce up to 120 pounds of milk at one time.We learned that cows have 1 calf ever year. The students enjoyed learning from the dairy farmers and did a great job participating!

Auburn University Raptor Center Show

On Friday April 6th, the Auburn University's Raptor Center came to Auburn Early Education Center for a special yellow pod presentation. The students were seated outside near the Tiger's Den to learn about different types of raptors around our area. First, we learned about an owl that camoflauges. We also learned about the owl's hunting and feeding habbits. We later learned about a Red-Tailed Hawk, Barn Owl (also know as a "ghost owl"), Falcon, and a Bald Eagle. The Bald Eagle was named "Spirit" and flies around Auburn's stadium on game days. The students enjoyed the presentation and later got to write about it in their daily journals.

Tree Frogs in the Rainforest

We recently completed our thematic study on tree frogs in the rainforest. We learned about the flying tree frog, red eyed tree frog, and the posion dart frog. We talked about some of the vocabulary used when discussing tree frogs such as amphibian, Bromeliad ponds, camoflauge, imitating, life cycles, and ecosystem. The students enjoyed learning about the various types of frogs, and especially the poison dart frog. After learning about tree frogs they got to construct their own tree frog and paint it according to their favorite kind of frog that we learned about. To wrap up our unit on tree frogs, we went outside on a nature walk to observe some of the possibly habitats of tree frogs in the rainforest. The children were great at using their imagination!

On our nature walk to observe the tree frog habitat

Some of the tree frogs that the students made

The "learned" portion of our KWL chart