Fact Family and Fire Safety!

This week in math we have been practicing simple addition and subtraction problems within a fact family. I was really excited to bust out my fact family chart I purchased last year. The kids really had a fun time with it. We used it daily during the whole group teach before dismissing into doing the assignments at our tables. I will be placing this into the math center after I laminate the numbers. If there are any volunteers who would like to laminate and cut out the numbers for me, that would be great!

We updated our math bulletin board in the classroom. Why not do something Halloween related since Halloween is coming up?! These candy corn came out to be really cute. Look at how neat some of my students are writing. The kids know how I feel about MESSY work! If it's messy, they have to redo it! Rushed and messy work in Cô Tracy's class is not allowed =P

So in VLA, we have been working on the words “con trai” and “con gái” which means “boy” and “girl.” The students got to create their own monster and pick a gender for the monster and then complete the sentence for me. It says “I am a...”

Con trai= boy

Con gái= girl

Đi= go

Là= is

Con= I (talking to an adult)

Em= I (talking to someone near their age, friends)

In the library this week, Mrs. Richey read us Creepy Carrots! The kids really enjoyed the books and made their own creEeeEeEePy carrots. Fun book!

Mrs. Yarborough and Mrs. Farnsworth were good sports about putting on a firefighter’s outfit. They said that the outfit was verrrry heavy but that's how it keeps the firefighters safe from fires. First grade learned about fire safety on Friday. The firefighter taught the kids what they should do during a fire and how to be safe. He said that if you are upstairs and can’t get down, throw a stuffed animal down from the window and when the firefighters get there and see a stuffed animal on the ground, they will know that there is still a child stuck up in the room where the window is.

Please sign-up for our Halloween party if you haven’t yet! The sign-up is in front of our classroom.