October is such a busy month (both in school and life), so I apologize about this long overdue update. Enjoying the pumpkin patches, spending time with family, eating everything pumpkin and renovating a home took over this past month!
We have been a group of busy bees this month. We started the month learning about the different types of community helpers, specifically the firefighter. The Lake Zurich Fire Department even paid a visit to our school! We also learned all about pumpkins and even carved one for our classroom. Enjoy a little snapshot of the beginning of the month :).
Sight word readers are always a great way to kick off a unit. It allows for sight word reinforcement, all while learning about our topic for the week.
Labeling helps children recognize that words have meaning. Below is a picture of a student's work from our firefighter unit.
My (funny) attempt at drawing a firefighter :). We talked about the different parts of a firefighter and then labeled it together.
Wearing firefighter attire is no joke! That stuff is HEAVY and HOT! Hats off to our servicemen who put their lives at risk to help keep us all safe.
We loved learning about all the different parts of the fire engine!
And we had to have one funny face picture :)...
We read the story, The Five Little Pumpkins and worked on sequencing the parts of the story. We sequenced the speech bubbles and created a cute, little craft to go along with it :)!
Can you guess what we will end the month learning about :)?
