Fire Safety Week

This week has been Fire Safety Week. The Fire Department and Forest Service came out and spoke to the students about fire prevention and safety. We even had our picture taken with Smoky the Bear. We learned the importance of an evacuation plan. The fireman also told us what to do if our clothes ever caught on fire. We have to STOP, DROP,and ROLL.

They also survived end of quarter testing last week. I am very proud of them!!!

Student of the Week...

Tristan is the Student of the Week for this week. Here are some interesting facts about Tristan.
1. Tristan has one sister who is in the 6th grade.
2. Tristan's basketball is his favorite toy.
3. He has a pet yorkie.
4. Wipeout is his favorite tv show.
5. Tristan's favorite food and drink are chicken and root beer.
6. Brown is his favorite color.
7. Golf is Tristan's favorite sport.
8. Tristan named his Grandpa as the person he admires most.
9. When asked what his favorite season was Tristan replied deer season.
10. Dot the Flyer is Tristan's favorite book.
11. Tristan wants to be a dentist when he grows up.
12. Tristan's favorite place is the airport.

Visit from P.C. and Muscular Verbs

Visit from P.C.
P.C. dancing (sorry the lighting is not good)
Students showing their muscles and their muscular verbs.
Muscular verb list

We had a visitor come to our school on Tuesday. P.C. the drug and alcohol awareness car came to speak to the students about staying away from drugs and alcohol. In Writing this week we learned about muscular verbs. Muscular verbs are action words that truly describe the action.
Ex: The boy stepped over the water. (regular verb: stepped)
The boy leapt over the water. (muscular verb: leapt)
We read the book Stellaluna because it had a lot of muscular verbs such as clambered, murmured, gasped and many more. The students then brainstormed and came up with more muscular verbs. The list is pictured above. They came up with some really terrific muscular verbs.

I also want to brag on them. We didn't have anyone turn a card this past week. I am VERY VERY proud of them!!!! I tried a new seating arrangement and it is really working well.