Take a guess!

Here's a sneak peak to the fun we're having this week in K-6!

Any guesses? To be honest, I'm not completely sure what we're going to do with this but I can promise you it will be fun!

Community Helpers

We have had such a great time meeting all kinds of community helpers!!

Here's a peek at some of out guests:

The firemen...


A vet (complete with snake!)


A doctor...


A teacher (Hannah's mom is a 1st grade teacher at CWE!)


And a coach (Hannah's dad!)


And an FBISD police officer with his partner Magnum D.I.!!





Each of them was so great! I especially loved getting to see each guests personality and how they use that in their job. (playing with Magnum was lots of fun too!)

I could tell you what all they talked to us about but why don't you ask your kids about it?! :)

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Sweetest kids on Earth!

As some of you may know I was out on Friday with a very sick pup.  She somehow managed to get a hold of vitamins and swallowed nearly 300! Long story short...

I am very thankful she is still in my life. She still has some follow up appointments but the vets are optimistic that everything will be ok.

I am SO thankful for community helpers, especially vets this week!

I am also thankful for Mrs. Gonzalez who stepped in for the day when a sub never showed. (It's very hard to find a sub on Fridays, especially when it's very last minute and unplanned.) They had a great day doing what we do in here! Mrs. Gonzalez is the BEST!

I am also thankful for my sweet kinders.  When I went up to school on Friday afternoon to check on things and get the treats for the firemen I found the best surpise!

Everyone had written get well soon cards for Millie! It was so thoughtful!


A couple of the sweet cards and pictures.

And here's the patient...

I had to draw a Double T on her red bandage for the game this weekend...sadly, it didn't help.

I'll be back soon with updates on all our COMMUNITY HELPER visits!

SLFD

On Tuesday we had a visit from these nice folks





I don't know about the kids but I loved it!!! I had never seen a truck up close and personal like this before! First we went outside to check out their wheels...




Fireman Dave took us around the truck and showed us each part.

The fire hose. It was HEAVY! You have to be strong to be a firefighter!




He showed us all the side compartments where the water gauges are and the tools they use and even the jaws of life!




I loved how perfectly folded those hoses were!




We even got to walk through the truck!





Then we headed inside to hear more about their job itself from these cute friendly firemen.




They talked about fire safety and told everyone to go home and have a fire drill with their parents. Did y'all do that?? One interesting thing they told us was to throw toys, pillows, blankets, anything we can find out our window if there's a fire and we can't get out the bedroom door. Seeing all those things will tell the firefighters there are people (children esp) inside that need help!

We practiced stop, drop, and roll and then Fireman Bobby put on all his gear!

The boots are connected to the pants so they can get them on quickly.




They said it's very important not be be afraid if the fireman if you were ever in a fire. He put on his mask and airpack and sounded just like Darth Vader! Looked a little like him too!




It was such a great visit from the SLFD! I think we may have some future firefighters on our hands!

We wrote them a thank you note and I plan to deliver it with snacks and treats tomorrow!




We are SO thankful for the fire department and all they do to keep us safe!

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Vocabulary Parade

Yep...I only took about 3 pictures...fail. But I assure you, my kinder babies were oh so cute! Here's some proof...



Most teachers would pass on all the seemingly uneducational junk from Michael's and Hob Lob that fills my closets oh, but not this teacher...for once spending lots of money
for nothing has paid off! We were able to find a plethora of "costumes" perfect for our vocabulary parade...




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Skeletons!

Usually I email myself the pictures I take in class and then put them in publisher to flip them the right way, then well, I won't bore you but it's a timely process so I'm going to attempt a post from my phone...

We read this super cute book...


The kids loved it but by the time we were done I was feeling quite light headed. The skeleton hiccups no less than a billion times in this story...have you tried hiccuping just for fun? It take all the breath out of you! Ha

Anyway....Next I pulled out Mr. Bones. We discussed how our body moves and bends and how our bones are our skeleton. We took turns moving Mr. Bones and copying his movement...








I let them create a movement for me to do which just happened to be some crazy herky (a type of jump that I haven't done since my cheerleader days) let me tell you it wasn't pretty....mid jump Ms. Tarantino walked in and caught me falling straight on my rear! There's a reason I'm a teacher and not a Texan's cheerleader! We all got a good laugh and moved on to this fun little project...

I can't take credit for his cuteness...I stole this idea from google image. My mom is an art teacher (and a really really amazing one at that) she had tried doing this project with her 2nd graders and said it was a mess! So going into it I wasn't sure how it would go but wouldn't you know....they did amazingly!!







They made skeletons using q-tips...So cute right?! I know! Thank goodness for google!

I was beyond impressed with some of their creativity...
Jumping....


Oops...upside down but this one is running...


Splits...








If you going out to night for a little trick or treating...enjoy!! I'll be catching up on my shows blogging!

Happy pumpkin! As my grandma used to say!

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This week in math stations...

Here's what we did in math stations this week...

One group made numbers with pattern blocks.



One group measured bats with unifix cubes and paper clips. they then wrote a recorded the numbers.

 

This group dropped a ghost to see if landed on the black side or the orange side. Then tallied and graphed it. When they finished they played a memory type game with jack-o-latern cards.



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Here are those pumpkins again!! I forgot to snap a picture but they ordered them from biggest to smallest and then sorted them in different ways.  When they finished they played various pumpkin matching games.

This afternoon is our pumpkin carving party!! We are super excited! I also have some other October activities to share...maybe I'll get to those this weekend? Put don't hold your breath!

Have a good one!