Where was Mrs. Wright?

In October the Kindergarten teachers and PreK teachers attended the KTOT conference in Dallas.  We had a lot of fun and learned a lot of new things.  Many of the venders had drawings, but we must have not been the lucky winners.  Lakeshore Learning had a contest-design your own person.  There was a lot of confussion on the rules and procedures, but Ms. Lakeshore won.  We received the rug you see in the background for our room.  At first we thought the winner won $500 shopping spree which we were going to divide.

This was the original creation.  After figuring out the rules and that a presentation was required Ms. Lakeshore was altered.  One side was put together and neat because she uses Lakeshore Ready Made materials to teach, the other side she had frizzy hair, messy and torn clothing, and a broken flip-flop because she is a first year teacher trying to make all of her own materials.

We LOVE Frog Street on our end of the building-it is where a lot of our songs come from we sing in class.

 I learned a lot and had fun.  It is GREAT to teach with such GREAT ladies!

1st Six Weeks Academic PepRally

DQ Reading Winners.

Panther Pride Awards

Promoting college/trade school readiness.

Community Helpers: VFD

We walked to the Seymour VFD to visit with the local fireman.  They dressed two of their fireman up for the kids to see and showed us lots of tools and gadgets.  They ended our trip with a ride on the firetruck back to school!

Thank you very much to all of the men who have or do serve on our VFD.  We appreciate your hard work and dedication.

Community Helpers: Game Wardens

Another great group of community helpers who payed a visit to our school is the local Game Warden from Baylor and Knox Counties.  These two young men where FABULOUS with the kiddos.  They explained things and let the kids climb on the boat and steer it (it wasn't running!), sit in the pick-up and turn on the lights, look through binoculars, hold a magnet used in testing water fowl and the bullet used, and talk on their PA system both in the pick-up and their handheld.

These guys were awesome!

Thank you very much for your presentation and for letting us experiment with your cool gadgets!

Community Helpers:Mr. Don

One of the students favorite community helpers was Mr. Don and his trash truck.  He dumped the dumpster for the kids and they were mesmerized!!!!

Thank you Mr. Don you are very needed in our community and we appreciate your dedication!

Fire Prevention

During the month of October we celebrate Fire Prevention and learn about how to be safe at home incase of a fire.  The PreK students made fire prevention poster which were judged by our local volunteer fire men.

Look how BIG my PPCD kiddos are acting at our assembly after our fire drill!!!!

Please be sure and have a safety meeting place incase you ever have a fire at your house and be sure to check your smoke detectors often!

Community Helpers:DPS

Trooper Zeissel came to visit with our students for part of our Community Helpers unit.  I even let the kids sit in his car!!!!!

I missed getting pictures of the first group of girls. :-(

 Thank you very much Trooper Zeissel and thank you for taking care of us and our community!