Wisconsin Alphet
By: Kayti and Mason
A is for red apples
• Wisconsin grows over 68 millions of apples
each year . Wisconsin makes 40 million pies
from the Wisconsin apple crop every year. The
group of beautiful fruit trees is called an
Orchard . There are apple festival and they
serve apples on the grill .
B is for Braves
• In 1953 Milwaukee Braves became the first
Major League Baseball team for Wisconsin.
There first game was April 13th 1953 in
Milwaukee. There last game was October 3rd
1963. After their first year the governor of
Wisconsin said they were the best and they
will always be the best.
C is for chesse
• Wisconsin is the most famous for the great
yellow ,orange cheese that people come from
all over the world to eat . Some people go to
a festival and celebrate the cheese in Little
Chute Wisconsin. The festival is 3 days long . It
all began in 1988 when the first cheese was
made. Wisconsin can carve cheese in to a
shape.
D is for Dells
• Wisconsin Dells is the biggest water park in
the nation. It has some of the craziest rides
ever so do you dare to ride? If yes, I would get
ready to ride for your life . A long time ago
Wisconsin Dells was just a city with a
population of 2,418 .
E is for effigy mounds
F is for Fossil
• The state fossil is the trilobite. It was found
450-400 million years ago . At that time
Wisconsin was a little under 30 degrees south
to the equator. This fossil is related to crabs
and insects. The trilobite is like a pill bug that
rolls around to protect its soft under belly.
G is for great lakes
• The great lakes are Superior , Michigan ,
Huron , Erie and the connecting channels to
the greatest fresh for surfing . Water would be
about 9 . 5 feet deep . There is about 50000 to
1000000 cubic feet per sec . The great lakes
can push very large things .
H is for Harry Houdini
• Harry Houdini was born in Appleton on March
24th 1876 . His AWESOME tricks were enjoyed
by people all over the world . Some tricks
were outstanding and frightening and were
shown all over the world . Harry Houdini died
on the stage on Oct 31st 1926. He was 52 years
old .
I is for ice –cream sundae
• The first sundae was made in 1880 but it was made
popular in 1956 by a man named H.L. Mencken.
There is a fight between Two rivers Wisconsin and
New York about who made the first ice-cream
sundae. The fight goes back to the 1970. Wisconsin
claims that we made the first ice-cream sundae that
served by accident in 1881.’’One night , Hallauer
served a dish of ice-cream, and when he was serving
it he spied chocolate syrup on the back bar, and said
“why don’t you put that on the ice-cream”
J is for jump rope
Jump rope began in Wisconsin in 1960 when a
coach named Wally Mohrman became a gym
teacher in the schools. He started to make a
contest out of jumping in a rope. The record
for jump rope is jumping 72 jumps in ten
seconds.To add to the contest Mohrman
formed a group called the “swinging safari”.
K is for Kewaunee
Kewaunee is found on Lake Michigan. It is
known where they catch the most trout . Lake
Michigan is near Door Country and 30 miles
east of Green Bay . Kewaunee’s population is
just under 3000 .
L is for Limburger cheese
• When Germans came to Wisconsin they made
Wisconsin famous for there swiss cheese and
limburger cheese . Today in Monroe in
Wisconsin is the sole of making limburger
cheese . Even it has a stinky smell as people
say as feet ,it taste good though .
M is for Milwaukee
• Milwaukee is the 23 largest in the U . S . A . By
the population is 1 ,7 3 9 , 4 9 7- 2 , 0 1 4 ,0 3 2
. In Milwaukee it was discovered in 1818 .
Come down and you can see the Milwaukee
bucks play basketball or if you like baseball
more than basketball
N is for northern pike
• The northern pike was the first fish found in
Wisconsin . It’s the second largest fish in
Wisconsin . Its always fun to catch and see .
The largest one caught is 38 pounds and 20
inches .
O is for Osprey
The Osprey is a fish eater and can grab the fish
in the water the fish will wiggle and jiggle .
The bird is black and white or brown . If you
get to close it will have a frenzied . The Osprey
comes back in mid April to get to the warmer
southerly states .
P is for Peshtigo
• In October 8 , 1871 the Peshtigo fire destroyed
the town that good people lived in and caryd
about . The Peshtigo fire took place in Timber ,
millions of houses were destroyed because of
it . The most people that died were 1200 and
2400 that did not survived . The Peshtigo fire
was one of the top ten fires .
Q is for Quad race
• Quad racing is in the north of Wisconsin . It is
all racing and they don’t do it a lot in the
nation but they do it the most in Wisconsin .
They mostly play races with dirt bikes or boats
, cars, four - wheeling .
R is for rivers
• Wisconsin is proud to have the Mississippi
River . The river is 430 miles long . It is
between Minnesota and Iowa on the west
side of Wisconsin .
S is for the state seal
• The state seal stands for Wisconsin’s first
state flag. It was done in 1881 . The coat of
Arms that has symbols that stands for
differences, money and a lot of bunches and
resources . The one man on the left is a is a
saler .
T is for timber
logging in Wisconsin was the most famous in
the lower part of Wisconsin . The logging
industry began in 1825 . In the year of 1890
Wisconsin’s top leader industry was logging .
IT was hard for the loggers because if a tree
would fall it would KILL YOU !!!!
U is for university
• Wisconsin first university is in Madison made
in 1848 . The university is has 20 schools in
one . There are for students 2,570. They have
over 3328 people that graduate every year,
but they get more students .
V is for wood violet
• The state flower was first found in 1908 . The
wood violet is found in the would land . The
color is purple . You can eat the leaves from
the flower and the tastes sweet .
W is for white tail deer
•
Wisconsin white tail deer , did you now that the way how you see how old they are by there teeth. Male deer are called bucks. There antlers are used by the bucks to establish who is the
‘’boss’’ gets to mate with the most females. The white-tailed deer is biggest brown animal throughout Wisconsin.
X is for x-country skiing
• North Wisconsin has a lot of skiers in there
country they also have snowshoeing . One of
the Olympics was skiing and snowshoeing that
started in 1976 in Wisconsin. They had
marathons ,races in north Wisconsin. There
was a team were children adults.
Z is for zoo
• The zoo in Milwaukee holds the most
Mountain lions . The population of people
that go there are ¼ of the people that are in
Milwaukee witch is 2,014,032 . The people
that go there are so happy whenthey come
back from the zoo they tell all there friends
about it .
R is a for Robin
• Wisconsin state bird is the Robin. The robin
was found in 1926 and adopted in 1949. It’s
belly is red and it’s top is black. The length 8.5
inches and a thin yellow bill. In the early
mornings you can offten hear them sing.
G is for great lakes
• The Wisconsin greats lakes are beautiful and a
natural and wonders for the world . The year
of 2002 the 1,540 of adults that are living in
the great lakes are maybe still living .
Y is for yellow corn
• One hot days people eat corn and eat out side
. the farmers grow more corn then any vegey.
The yellow corn is filled up ears of with stright
rows of corn . The husks have to be fresh and
green and ready to sale .