Ms. Kreul’s Class Blog

A class of fourth graders at Richards School in Whitefish Bay, WI USA

Entries Tagged as 'Wisconsin'

Top Ten Facts from Alice in Dairyland

March 7, 2012 · No Comments · Curriculum Highlights, Reading, Social Studies, Wisconsin, Writing Projects

4KR’s Top Ten Wisconsin Facts post was turned into a word cloud using Tagul. Thanks again to Alice in Dairyland Katie Wirkus for teaching us a lot of information about our beautiful state of Wisconsin.  

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Alice in Dairyland’s Visit

February 26, 2012 · 1 Comment · Curriculum Highlights, Science, Social Studies, Wisconsin

Fourth graders at Richards School enjoyed meeting Katie Wirkus, Wisconsin’s Alice in Dairyland, on Friday. Her job as Alice in Dairyland is to travel around the state teaching people about Wisconsin’s agriculture resources. In fact, Katie’s job is “Wisconsin’s Agricultural Ambassador.” She is Wisconsin’s 64th Alice in Dairyland and has her job for one year. [...]

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Top Ten Wisconsin Facts

February 26, 2012 · 1 Comment · Curriculum Highlights, Social Studies, Wisconsin

Top Ten Facts We Learned About Wisconsin From Alice in Dairyland Katie Wirkus Colby Cheese is made in and named after Colby, Wisconsin. There are 777 different types of cheese produced in Wisconsin. 90% of the milk produced in Wisconsin is used to make cheese. Some string cheese is really made of mozzarella cheese. It [...]

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Wisconsin Winter Fun

January 1, 2012 · 2 Comments · Just for Fun

4KR, what do you like to do outside during our snowy Wisconsin winters? Write a post on your Kidblog blog and tell us all about it! photo © 2010 Shirl | more info (via: Wylio)

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Cheese Poll

September 26, 2011 · 1 Comment · Classroom Notes, Just for Fun, Polls, Technology Tidbits

Wow – we had 171 people vote in our Cheese Poll! Here are the results of the Poll: Hint – click on the graph to enlarge the image.  

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Cheese Poll

September 19, 2011 · 1 Comment · Just for Fun, Math, Polls, Technology Tidbits

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Wisconsin History at Wade House

October 10, 2010 · No Comments · 4K Newsletters, Curriculum Highlights, Social Studies, Wisconsin, Writing Projects

On Friday, fourth graders will be traveling back in time to  to Wisconsin in the 1860s when they visit Wade House in Greenbush. After the field trip, students will be taking on the roles of people who lived, worked, or visited Wade House during that period in history, and write biographies about their lives. Students [...]

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Summer Web Sites

June 19, 2010 · No Comments · Classroom Notes, Just for Fun, Math, Reading, Science, Social Studies, Technology Tidbits, Web Sites for Kids, Wisconsin, Writing Projects

Download the Summer Web Sites document below to your computer and have fun all summer long exploring Internet sites that are just right for elementary students and their families. Enjoy! Summer Web Sites

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My Life as a Blacksmith at Wade House

June 8, 2010 · No Comments · Curriculum Highlights, Social Studies, Wade House Biographies, Wisconsin, Writing Projects

By Nicko How I come to be a blacksmith is that I was travlin west when I come upon the Wade House. I stayed here for a few weeks and had a particular interest in the blacksmith job. The current blacksmith noticed me ad offered me a job as his apprentice, I said “sure” After [...]

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Life at Wade House

June 7, 2010 · No Comments · Curriculum Highlights, Reading, Social Studies, Wade House Biographies, Wisconsin, Writing Projects

By Matthew Good Day! My name is Jake and I live at Wade House. I came to Wade house to get rested and healed from being in the Civil War like my friend Mike. In the winter if 1863 I came here to get away from the war. I got a room on the second [...]

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Blacksmith at Wade House

June 6, 2010 · No Comments · Curriculum Highlights, Reading, Social Studies, Wade House Biographies, Wisconsin, Writing Projects

By Matt I am a worker at wade house. I work as the Blacksmith. A Blacksmith’s main job was to make farming tools. Like pitch forks, horse shoes, oxen shoes, chains, and axes. It is fun being a Blacksmith because if you don’t like how it looks it’s fine it just has to work. Also [...]

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My Visit to the Wade House

June 5, 2010 · No Comments · Curriculum Highlights, Reading, Social Studies, Wade House Biographies, Wisconsin, Writing Projects

By Kenadee Hello, I am Kenadee and I recently had a trip to the Wade House. I was on my way from Ohio on a really rainy stormy night. I was on my way on my way with my husband and 5 kids. When we first arrived there they greeted me and my family with [...]

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My Life of a Blacksmith

June 4, 2010 · No Comments · Curriculum Highlights, Reading, Social Studies, Wade House Biographies, Wisconsin, Writing Projects

By Ka-Ron 1865 Dear Cameron McKinney, I’m working as a blacksmith I worked for about17 years also I ain’t never complain cause I know everything I make just has to work it doesn’t have to be cute. I have 0 kids no life so I’m letting it off easy paying $0.25 for a room. I [...]

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The Wade House

June 3, 2010 · 1 Comment · Curriculum Highlights, Reading, Social Studies, Wade House Biographies, Wisconsin, Writing Projects

By Joslin Pleased to meet you, I’m Betsey Wade, I hope planning on stayin’ at the Wade house. I’ll give a tour around if you like. First things first ya always gotta go around to the back door ‘cause the front door leads to the barroom and ya don’t want to get caught there do [...]

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The wade house

June 2, 2010 · No Comments · Curriculum Highlights, Reading, Social Studies, Wade House Biographies, Wisconsin, Writing Projects

BY Jordan My name is Joe Ridden and I was in the civil war on the confederate side until I got shot in the leg. My war friends took me to this town called Greenbush they left me there at an inn called The Wade House so I could recuperate. Before I ate some good [...]

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Living in the Wade House

June 1, 2010 · 1 Comment · Curriculum Highlights, Reading, Social Studies, Wade House Biographies, Wisconsin, Writing Projects

By Haley July 12, 1865 Dear Diary, After my mother, father, and I had moved in to the Wade House, my mother explained why this place happen to be our new home. She said” That since the was going on around where we live, she asked father if we could live here.” When I approached [...]

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Grace’s Life at Wade House

May 30, 2010 · No Comments · Curriculum Highlights, Reading, Social Studies, Wade House Biographies, Wisconsin, Writing Projects

By Grace Hello my name is Grace, I am 24 and I work as a maid at the Wade House in Greenbush, Wisconsin. My family used to live in Missouri. But during the war I had to find a place to stay. I had $1.00 so I had enough to get a room and a [...]

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Being a Blacksmith at the Wade House

May 29, 2010 · No Comments · Curriculum Highlights, Reading, Social Studies, Wade House Biographies, Wisconsin, Writing Projects

By Eve Hello! I am a blacksmith working for the Wade family. Being the only blacksmith is very important. I can make or fix almost anything. Here’s my story. I was looking for a place to stay, coming from Massachusetts. War was going on and it isn’t too safe to at those times. I saw [...]

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Bill Weston’s at Wade House

May 28, 2010 · No Comments · Curriculum Highlights, Reading, Social Studies, Wade House Biographies, Wisconsin

By David P. Good to meet you, I am Bill Weston. I work at the sawmill. It can be hard having to cut wood all day. There is no emergency stop. It looks like a few levers. Its harder then that. You see, there’s a dam, so it’s powered by water and there are turbines [...]

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Wade House

May 27, 2010 · No Comments · Curriculum Highlights, Reading, Social Studies, Wade House Biographies, Wisconsin, Writing Projects

By David B Good day my name is Sam. I come from Ohio. Where I had a wife named Susana and two children John and Kate. We where making a very good life with me working while Susana was staying home taking care of the children. When the civil war started. I got drafted and [...]

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