Special Visitors!

Ok parents, I'm SO sorry for waiting so long to update our blog! Fall break seemed to throw me off a little! ANYWAY, our first new post is about a special visitor our first graders had a few weeks ago.. JAMES SPANN! He was absolutely wonderful with the students and taught them a lot about clouds and weather (which they understood a little bit better because we have completed our weather unit). My favorite part of his presentation to the students was when he told a story about when he knew he was going to work with weather. Believe it or not, he was in the first grade! Here's a part of that story:

Here, Mr. Spann showed coverage of the April 27th tornado in Tuscaloosa. He told the students that many people's lives were saved because they turned on the TV and took shelter when weathermen told them to.

As you know, James Spann always has a KidCam that he shows on the news. This is one of our students, Kimara Parki, getting to hold the KidCam and videotape the first grade!

Right before he left, we presented him with a cookie cake from DES.

We had such a good time visiting with Mr. James Spann! :)

AND our second visitor was from someone who MOOves around a lot..... :) Butterbean the Mobile Dairy Cow! (She MOOves, get it? haha) In case you have never heard of this, the Mobile Dairy Cow travels around to stop at elementary schools. There is also a woman who travels with the cow who teaches the students interesting information about cows and the nutrients her milk makes. At the end of her speech, she milked Butterbean and the students got to see the milk travel through tubes and into a glass tank. It was pretty cool! Thanks to both of our visitors for speaking to our students!