Dear MWF Families,
October is Fire Prevention Month, so this week our class took a field trip to the Fire Station. There the children watched an Elmo video about fire safety, and met Firefighter Jeff. Firefighter Jeff gave a wonderful presentation on fire safety and showed everyone the fire trucks and ambulance. The students especially loved climbing aboard the fire truck to get their picture taken. Another firefighter put on his uniform and equipment, and showed the children what a firefighter crawling around in a fire would sound and look like.
Later in the week, we practiced crawling low to the ground in an obstacle course to practice Stay Low and Go for fire safety. The children learned so much about fire safety.
Here are some of the other things we’ve done this week at school…
We glued stems and seeds on our pumpkins we painted last week. Then we practiced counting the seeds that we had glued.
We made a Thank You book for the fire fighters at the fire station and included pictures we made for them of our favorite things that we had seen there.
We read Firefighters by Norma Simon and Fred The Firefighter-an Usborne Book.
We practiced counting and sorting colored cotton balls and picking
them up with tweezers.
We practiced tracing and writing the letter C.
We also cut along a large template of the letter C to practice our scissor skills and then glued colorful circles to the letter.
Last week I sent home our Show and Share bags for Letter C week, and this week we had two students bring in items to share with the class. One student brought in a camera, and another student brought in a cat.
We had so much fun this week, and we are looking forward to Letter D Week and the week of Halloween!
Miss Amy, Miss Michele, Miss Jean & Miss Pat
