Fire Safety

We were really lucky to have another great week.  This week we learned all about fire safety.  We learned stop, drop, and roll.  We also practiced crawling safely under a blanket to simulate crawling low under smoke.  You may have seen a black paint blob on white paper come home with your child.  We were supposed to add black dots to our dalmatian fire dog printout with a Q-tip, but once we started, it was too hard to stop painting!  We just kept adding more and more paint until the dog was gone!  We also used a straw to blow red, yellow and orange paint to look like fire.  We also colored a fire truck and wrote what we would do if we were a fireman.  These are laminated and will be combined into a classroom book.  Finally, we played with a fire truck, fire hat and  fire coats during dramatic play time.

Next week, we will only have school on Monday.  The entire teaching staff is headed to Fargo for the Region 8 Head Start Conference.  Although we only have one day next week, we still have a lot to do.  We are having two of the volunteer fireman come to visit our class.  We are also continuing with our "Fall into Walking" at 3:00.  Last week, we were able to have two parents join us. 

As you may or may not have noticed, the teachers are very busy working on observation based assessments.  As part of our assessments, we must have an anecdotal note on each child.  You the parents will see these during our next home visit with us at the end of October.