Sparky's Visit

The West Memphis Fire Department and Sparky came to Maddux this week to teach us about fire safety.

We learned to look for things in our home that are fire hazards.  Families also need to have a meeting place outside the house to know everyone is safe in case of a fire.  

A fireman put on his fire-fighting gear to let us know what he would look like if he entered our house during a fire.  We also got to hear how he would sound.  

Thank you to the West Memphis Fire Department and Sparky for helping us learn about fire safety!

Telling Time, Book It and Sparky

We have been busy with telling time.  This is a skill that can be tricky.  Please review this with your child.  We will continue to review this from time to time.  I only took one picture because we were so busy learning that I forgot!  

In October we always begin Book It.  This is a program where your child can earn a free pan pizza from Pizza Hut for reading.  Each month I will send home a form for your child to fill out with the books they read.  The goal for October is 8 books.  Please sign the form when they are finished.  I will give them a coupon when they return it to me!  Kymille was the first student to return her form and get her pizza coupon.  Several other students have brought their form back now.  You have until the last day of the month to return it.

Maddux always enjoys when Sparky and the firefighters come to teach about fire safety.  We had a good time learning about smoke detectors, 911, not going back into the house for anything and to stop, drop, and roll.  Tamiria even got to go on stage and dance with Sparky.  Thank you Sparky and the West Memphis Fire Department!!

Stomp Out Bullying, Fact Families, Sparky, Graphing, Timed Tests

This past week was very busy.  The first Monday of October is Blue Shirt Day World Day of Bullying Prevention.  A lot of teachers wore Stomp Out Bullying shirts and students were asked to wear a blue shirt.  About 9 students in our class had on blue shirts.  This was to join in solidarity to stop bullying and cyberbullying.

On Tuesday we worked on fact families using dominoes.  Students had to write the two addition and two subtraction number sentences to go with each domino.

Wednesday we had a very special visitor come to Maddux.  The West Memphis Fire Department came and did a fire prevention and safety show to the students in kindergarten, first and second grades.  We had a good time learning about stop, drop, and roll, and things that we shouldn't play with to prevent fires.  They also brought a special visitor the students always enjoy...Sparky!!!  Several students were picked to demonstrate stop, drop and roll with Sparky.  A few were also picked to dance with Sparky.  It was a good program.

All week in math we worked on graphing.  We learned about collecting data and making a table using tally marks or numbers.  We also learned about picture graphs and bar graphs.

We are also doing a timed test each week on math facts.  Please continue to study.  I am happy to announce that this week 9 students made an A on their test.  Congratulations to the following students:  Briana, Tammial, Keliah, Shanyia, Somer, JaDarious, Jaydon, Deterrian, and Jeremiah.  Keep up the good work!!!