Oct. 9, 2009

What a week! It was Gingerbread week and fire safety week.

On Monday, we read the story "The Gingerbread Man". On Tuesday, we made a giant gingerbread man and 25 little gingerbread men. On Wednesday, we went to eat him. When we got to the kitchen, we found the little gingerbread men, but our giant gingerbread man had run away! He left us a note saying he ran to the office. When we got there, we found a note that said he ran to the nurse's office. From there we went to Galaxy Kids room and the library We finally found him in Mrs. Faust's speech room on Friday morning. Along the way, we met many of the people who work in our school. We walked throughout the school looking for clues and signs of the gingerbread man. This gingerbread man hunt helped us get to know our school a little bit better.

We had a great field trip to the Fire Station. We learned some fire safety tips from Firefighter Kevin. Ask your child about changing a battery, finding a meeting place and practicing a home fire drill. Firefighter Wayne put on all of the fire fighter safety gear. He crawled around us to show what a fire fighter would look and sound like if he were coming to save someone in a fire. Then we got to try out the fire hose. We also got to see and go inside some fire trucks. As we were leaving, the fire fighters put on the lights and sirens. It was awesome!!! Thank You Rockford Volunteer Firefighters!