Mystery Reader

Last week we had our first Mystery Reader of the year.  Ashton's daddy,  Mr. Hayden came in to read to us on Friday last week after the fire fighters gave their presentation.  Mr.  Hayden gave really great clues for the children to guess who he was.  Ashton had no idea that it was his dad until he took a minute to think about the last clue!  "Today is my birthday" was the clue.  I asked the kids if they knew of anyone that had a birthday that day and they all said no....including Ashton!  But after a minute or two Ashton says, "hey today is my dad's birthday!"  Too cute!  You should have seen the HUGE smile on his face when he saw his dad walk in to read to our class :)

Mr. Hayden read a great book called The Bugy Bops.  

It was a really cute story about friends with food allergies.

I still have a bunch of time slots available for Mystery Reader.  

If you haven't signed up and would like to read, please let me know :)

Falling Leaves and Fire Safety

I'm posting two weeks here, since I fell behind during Columbus Day weekend :)

Two weeks ago, we read stories that were all about leaves.  Some of the kids even found a few of those books in the library this week and were pretty excited to be able to take them home to read again!

Trinintee, Markie, Cayden and Emily are showing off the books we read about leaves!

We used some colored paper leaves to talk about patterning in math too.

Brianna, Rileigh, Jayson and Giancarlo made a: "yellow, red, yellow, red" pattern.

After reading Leaf Man, we took a little walk around 

the front yard of the school to find some leaves to make our own leaf men!  

Those googley eyes crack me up every time I look at them!

Here's a shot of our finished Leaf Man bulletin board with 

Miss Minardi's class' and our leaf men.  

Pretty cute, right?

Last week was all about Fire Safety. 

 We read books about fire safety and watched a cute Sesame Street video 

from when Mr. Hooper's store had a fire.  

How many of you remember Mr. Hooper?  I sure do!

 We went over the rules for keeping safe in the event of a fire.

To celebrate the end of our Fire Safety unit, we had a pretty cool visitor....Sparky!

Before our visit, we made an anchor chart with the kiddos from Mrs. Andaloro's class to talk about what we know about firefighters.  It turned out pretty cute....but I forgot to snap a photo of it!

Sparky brought along two of his friends: Chief Rosen and Captain Gill. Chief Rosen did an awesome job looking at all the things Sparky had in his knapsack.  We discussed things that are safe to play with and other things that are unsafe, like matches, lighters and candles.

Here are a few shots of Captain Joe dressing up in all of his safety gear.  Chief Rosen explained each piece and what it does to the kids as Captain Joe got dressed.

Once Captain Joe was dressed in all of his gear, 

Chief Rosen explained to the kids that it is very important that they are not afraid of a firefighter if they should have to enter their home in case of a fire. 

Captain Joe even crawled on the floor to show what he would look like

 if he were crawling toward them in a fire. 

They explained that is very important to go towards a firefighter,

and to not run away or hide during a fire. 

I hope this video link works! 

 I tried to add one of Captain Joe last year, but it didn't quite work.

Did your kinder give you your homework?

  Fire Chief Rosen told the kids that your homework was to check all of your smoke detectors to see that they are in good working order with fresh batteries.  

Did you check yours?

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