T-minus 1 week till High School

With one week till I venture off to Harborside High School I have been appreciating my time with these little kiddos. The students are on a token system and if they earn 16 they get a special treat. Usually a movie and a treat or lunch with the teacher. This time it was Root Beer Floats (one of my favorites!). I decided to pair this with a Reading Rainbow video on Milk Making. This RR video featured the great acting skills of LeVar Burton in a Canadian Tuxedo using words like "udder" and "teet" I know I'm 23 years old but something about the word "teet" will always make me laugh.

This milk video was inspired by a social studies lesson I was teaching about resources. We talked about farms and the resources of Wisconsin, when I got to cows a student decided to exclaim "Cows pee milk!" I couldn't control my laughter and he didn't make it any better by pointing to his 'you know where'. When I tried to explain udders to them they decided that meant milk came from a cow's guts. I love how 1st graders think things work. So I found the video in the library and it became another part of our Root Beer Float day! Finally the students understood that cows do not pee milk and that cows are not boys with the appropriate parts to pee milk out. Great lesson taught in 1st grade!