GO THIRD GRADE!!!

Go 3rd Grade!  2nd Grade is very proud of you!  You will all do G~R~E~A~T

"Daisy" the Rooster

Another one I think we're going to have to change them name of. I'm not 100 percent it's a rooster. I also have no idea what breed his is mixed from.

The new perch

This is one of the Rhode Island Red pullets we bought from the feed store in Wilsonville (very nice folks by the way!). She is a week or so younger than the chicks we hatched here but fits in quite well. She was one of the first chicks to start roosting on the perch I added to the brooder. Very cute!

"Kung Pow" the Marans pullet

Sweet as sugar! This little Marans chick loves to be held and is the first one to come to the door of the brooder. She is supposed to be a Marans and hatched from a very, very dark chocolate egg.

"Berta" the Rooster

Homemade Butter

Get ready kids! I have been teasing my kids for quite some time now that we would make homemade butter in class. We have been reading Little House in the Big Woods and they talk about real homemade butter. Butter is easily made from heavy cream and tastes really good. Several people brought in baby food jars for our project and I think we now have enough. Tonight I decided to do a "trial run" and make some to be sure I remembered how to do it. Tadaa!

Lacie and I enjoyed the homemade butter on our bread tonight.  It was delicious!  Can't wait to do this in class.  The only thing I think I will change is the baby food jars.  Too much trouble!  I think we will make it in a quart jar and pass around the shaking jar.

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