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Turnip Stew!

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Good afternoon, Oak room families! The children were all so excited to make our turnip stew this morning. The children all took turns chopping A LOT of vegetables (turnips, potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots). They added them all to the pot and it got so full! The progression of our pot...        We took one last look at our stew, and then in to the Instant Pot it went! Then it was time to make our corn muffins to go with the stew. The children took turns preparing the batter and mixing.  While we were waiting for our stew to cool, some children were curious to try raw turnip. Some loved it, others not so much! It was finally time to feast! Have a great afternoon!
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A Quest for Turnips

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Good afternoon, Oak Room Family!  The Oak Room children have become interested in turnips after reading the book Grandma Lena's Big Ol' Turnip and determined that they want to try turnips.  We have discussed the foods that Grandma Lena made in the book and decided to make turnip stew and corn muffins.  The children discussed where we could get turnips and suggested going to a farmer's market but when we looked up farmers markets we could not find one within walking distance from the school.  Next they came up with the idea to go to a store so we planned a field trip to go to Straub's and this morning went to Straub's in search of turnips but they did not have any either.  We did get the other ingredients for our turnip stew and corn muffins.  After we returned the children suggested that teachers use their car to go get turnips from a farther away store.  We have now successfully obtained the turnips and look forward to making stew and muffins tomorrow...
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How will we use the message log?

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Good afternoon, Oak Room Family!  We have been reading and discussing the book Dear Bunny in meeting and the students decided that we need a message log for our classroom.  Yesterday at the forest CH found a hollow log for us to use as our classroom message log.  Today the children discussed the log and are divided as to whether the log we found will be big enough to use or if we need to find a different message log.  So, as with all important questions, we voted as to whether we should try to use our log and see if it works or if we should not try to use it and trying out the log won the election.  We have started discussions about how we will use the message log and the children have started to share ideas.  So far they have determined that they can leave messages for each other in the log but they also decided that they need to write the name of who the message is for on the message so that it can get to the correct person.  We will continue ongoing...
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