God blessed us with beautiful weather this week for Trike-a-thon which was a wonderful family evening.  Thank you to all who participated.  Our class learned all about fire safety this week and the emergency number 9-1-1.

STOP DROP AND ROLL  practice 

 Two handsome firefighters are ready to slide down the pole. 

 You can't have fire safety week without a fire truck.

 Dialing 9-1-1 to tell what the emergency is and tell their addresses.

 We made a fire scene with puffy paint made out of shaving cream, glue, and orange paint.

 This was our science experiment about fire and air.  We can't wait to see what happens.

 Mrs. Angela lit the candle

 The flame went out in 8 seconds, thus if fire gets no air, it cannot  breathe and stay alive.

 Some highlights from a fun night at Trike-a-thon

 These hot dogs are soooooo yummy.

 The lucky winner of the Ipad!!!!!!!

 One last tattoo for the night.  Thank you Mrs. Traci

This week we finished our unit on the senses and talked about weather.  We spent a lot of time discussing the seasons and which ones were our favorites.  Using real spaghetti for one of our crafts was really fun!! Check it out in our blog below.

 

 Look at these rays of sunshine.  Don't they make you happy?  They do me.  We learned the song Rise and Shine but probably a more appropriate song would have been You Are My Sunshine

 All eyes are on.....

 Mrs. Angela making it rain with a shaving cream cloud

 and blue food coloring proving when the clouds get so heavy it rains.

We read the very funny book Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. 

 So to remember this book we used real spaghetti in our craft.

We used a lot of our senses to tell how it smelled, felt, looked and...

 Looks yummy enough to eat and some of us did.

 Making a placemat with a pattern for our book display. 

 Some of the items on our sight table this week were binoculars, kaleidoscopes, magnifying glasses, and a feely box.  

 Whisper in Mrs. Angela's ear what you felt in the box.

 Using our senses of touch and sight, we were blind folded so we wouldn't peek in the box to discover its content.

 Patterning is an important pre reading skill.

 Egg cartons are used for various activities at our school.  In this one, there is a number in the bottom of each section and the child has to drop in that many apples.

 Each student picked their favorite season and drew a picture describing why they liked it the best.

There are so many activities and crafts to do with apples that we will probably continue into next week with this theme.  This was a big taste testing week for our Bridge class as we studied the sense of taste and learned where on our tongue we taste sweet, salty, sour and bitter.  We also got to sample lots of things made from apples and other foods.  It was truly a yummy week.

 

 A little Hokey Pokey to help us learn right from left.

 Sampling one of our apple snacks, applesauce.

 Doesn't look like a pickle face, but that's what she's eating

 No one turned down the salty or sweet treats.

 A salty chip

 A piece of bitter dark chocolate.

 Matching capitals with lower case paper apples.

 The sensory table this week was truly a SENSORY table.  It was filled with apple smelling petals, cinnamon sticks, beads, green marbles, and baskets.

 We learned a group of apple trees is called an orchard.

 So much easier to glitter anything with a shaker.

 Apple cereal bingo to review our letters and numbers.

 Each of us stamped our favorite apple snack.

 This is how our graph of apple products ended with apple juice winning big over plain apples, applesauce, and apple cheerios.

 We love to celebrate birthdays in our bridge class.  We were also provided with a sweet treat of donuts.