A sweet reward

Several of our kiddos earned a special ice cream treat thanks to their fundraiser sales! We enjoyed ice cream sundaes last week after snack. They were able to choose from vanilla, chocolate, or oreo ice cream (or all three!), sprinkles, crushed cookie toppings, even whipped cream and a cherry!

Cloud dough

Today we made cloud dough! It's an easy combination of corn starch and baby oil, and we added pumpkin pie spice for a yummy scent!



Magic seeds - the big reveal!

We couldn't wait to see what yesterday's magic seeds grew into!

Isn't it amazing how those magic seeds grew into pumpkins overnight? ;-)

Once we "harvested" our pumpkins, we brought them inside and painted them. 

We love our pumpkins!

Magic seeds

Since we've been learning about seeds, Mrs. Connie acquired some "magic" seeds.

We planted them in grand fashion today, and we can't wait to see what they grow into!

Group photo with Mrs. Connie!

Group photo with Mrs. LeeAnne!



Visit from the fire truck!

Today we had some super special visitors—four firefighters from the Chattanooga Fire Dept. (and their ladder truck)! Their visit was the perfect finish of our first aid/emergency worker week!

We reviewed stop, drop, and roll, and we talked about the special equipment firefighters use.

Our K-3's were very brave around such unfamiliar people!

One of the most important lessons from today was learning not to hide from a firefighter in the event of an emergency. Often, children are frightened of firefighters wearing their scary suits, helmets, and tanks.Officer Smith put on each piece of her uniform, piece by piece, allowing the children to see that it was really a nice person underneath all that gear.

Finally, we got to walk through the truck! 

Some of our kids would have stayed there all day if we'd let them!

Thank you, Station 8, for being so wonderful to our kiddos!