Shake, Shake, Shake,.... Shake, Shake, Shake...

Shake your ice cream! Wow! What an end of the year party! Are you tired yet??? Really, I think we have had a LOT of pizza these last few days. Today, was no different, except we did get some vegetables in there with our great salads and carrot sticks! You guys deserved every bit of today! You have been such a great class this year. You have bonded, become a family, and shared a lot of learning and fun together. You should be proud of yourselves!
The fun came when we made our 1st round (yes, there were two) of dessert! Today, we put our science skills to work again! We made ice cream from milk in our very own bag system! It was great fun, and quite messy~ maybe that is why it was so much fun! This was a multiple step process. First the all important question...... What flavor is your ice cream? Chocolate, Vanilla, or Strawberry?? Tough choices today!

Then, we added sugar, vanilla, milk and syrup if you wanted a flavor.

Here were all our yummy ingredients! We have learned that good prep work makes our job easier!

Yes.. that is sugar being poured into Cinnamon's bag! Pure old sugar. Her next step was Mrs. Rowan adding 1 cup of milk.

These rocks (salt) were the key to our success!!! Can you say ROCK SALT!

So we discovered something VERY important today! There is something to "heavy duty" ziploc bags! We did start inside but quickly had dripping ice bags so outside we went!

And here we are getting our groove on.... join me .... shake, shake, shake, ... shake, shake, shake

show'em how we do it now... (I know.. I digress, must of you probably don't know that song!) but man, the secret to good ice cream is definitely in the shaking!

but... only if you are in a circle! HAHA

Yes, even this late in the year, we had a class full of skeptics! I mean really guys... have we led you down the wrong path yet????

Jackpot! We hit chocolate... vanilla, and strawberry ice cream!

and was it ever good!

and they ate, and ate, and ate!!!

Klaudia was all smiles!

Stewie and Morgan eat their strawberry ice cream!

Klaudia enjoys her chocolate!

Diaje and Jason eat it up as well! Needless to say, making ice cream was a HUGE hit!

Even Seven became a believer today!

Jordan too!

Bags full of ice cream they ate!

Yummy was the general consensus!

Then, after homemade ice cream outside, we went in and ate yummy brownies that Mrs. Yadon made for us with our left over ice cream from Friday!

Then because we ate so much, we put in American Grandstand and danced around to work off some of those bazillion calories that we just ate!

PEACE OUT! We had a great year in Room 138! We love our students and are excited that they all rocked the FCAT and will be moving up to 6th grade! You should be very proud of yourselves! You guys can honestly say that you worked til 1:15 every day!

Notes for Wild Adventures came home today. Make sure you are on the bus at 6:45! We will return to school about 7:15 that evening. We suggest no more than $25.00 for spending money. It will be hot--- no swim suits! Bring a water bottle!

We have awards and our picnic tomorrow! Bring a change of clothes so you can play! Hamburgers, chips, watermelon, snow cones, and lots more!

See you in the morning!