Turkey Glyphs

Can you read our turkey glyphs using the key?

Firefighter Brian Meyerholtz

Firefighter Meyerholtz came to visit all of the kindergarten students. He showed us all of the pieces that go to his uniform. His entire uniform weighs about 80 pounds. He talked about his job, and told us that he learns new things all of time so he even goes to school.

Mrs. Hales tries on the uniform. It is very heavy!

Mr. Meyerholtz shows us how firefighters move through a burning building on their hands and knees to stay below the smoke.

When he has his mask on we can hear him breathing! Kind of like Darth Vader.

We practiced stop, drop, and roll! We have to be sure to cover our face, too!

Camera Man Daren Bower!

We kicked off our community helpers unit with inviting Eli's dad to our classroom.  He is a camera man, or photo journalist, for Fox 17 News!  He showed us his cameras.  It weighs 18 pounds!

We even saw our faces on the monitor!

We got to hear our voices on the microphone:

Mr. Bower also told the class how he edits his videos-- with his computer!

Here is one for us adults... Mr. Bower told the class that he used to take video using a VHS, and one of the students said, "what is that?" :):)

Thank you so much, Mr.Bower, for your enthusiasm and showing the class all your neat equipment! It was a special day in Kindergarten!

We made pumpkin bread!

We wrapped up our pumpkin unit by baking pumpkin bread!  Yesterday, we cut the pumpkin in half, scooped out the seeds and pulp, then placed the pumpkin in the crockpot all day to soften.  Today, we scooped out the pumpkin and mixed all of our ingredients!  Look how it turned out...

Yum yum yum!

Thanks to Mrs. Iverson for her help today :) 

You can find the recipe we used today in your child's take home folder. Try making it at home together to build oral language, fine motor skills, listening/following directions skills, and most importantly... A chance to spend quality time with your munchkin!