Showing posts with label fire drills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fire drills. Show all posts

Monday, September 17, 2012

 Fire Drills...Loathing. Unadulterated Loathing....

Fire drills are the worst thing ever!  (Even though they are practical and necessary!)  My kids think it is an extra recess.  After assuring that everyone is out of the building, I need a recording that repeats, "Face away from the building"...."Now is not a good time for picking flowers."..."Walking feet"...
No amount of bribery rewarding or practicing works.  But like Pollyanna, I will be GLAD that nothing truly is on fire and it was a beautiful day to practice.

On another note...I LOVE my blog makeover.  It makes me smile (unlike fire drills) and my chickadees finally finished a bunch of projects and got them up on the walls.

Bulletin Board Titled:  Chickadees by the Numbers and the Books
We glued our Important Numbers to one side.  The other side is a picture of us reading.  We colored, just the book.  (We were imitating Mo Willems.)  And added a speech bubble for the prompt, "Reading Makes Me Feel _____________ because _________________."  (Imitating a Todd Parr book.)
"Reading makes me feel awesome because it makes me go places."
"Reading makes me feel excited because it is fun.  You can use your imagination."
"Reading makes me feel somewhere else because it there's a book about Japan, I feel like I am in Japan."
"Reading makes me feel good because it inspires me to read more books."
"Reading makes me feel outstanding and excited because it's good for my brain."
Slowly, adding what we are reading to the board.
We all colored the first initial of our names.

Happy Monday,