October 8 in Room 11

• The butterflies are ready to be released. We will probably do that tomorrow.
• The North Bend Fire Department had an assembly at Hillcrest today. They demonstrated how to crawl on the floor if there is a fire in our home, talked about how and when to phone 911, showed everyone what fully equipped firefighters look like, and how their breathing would sound if they came into the house to do a rescue. Mr. Lucero told the students not to hide from them, because in spite of how scary they might look, they were just regular firefighters there to help. Next, the firefighters took off all their equipment, and, sure enough! Just regular people were inside all that stuff.
• The firefighters brought along Sparky, who got a lot of hugs at recess. He played basketball with the students. too.
• Hey, did you know that if you know what to add to 4 to get 12, its the same answer as subtracting 12 minus 4? Yep.
• All of our "Best Part of Me" writings are finished, except for Zoe's. Zoe has been absent.
• Get well soon, Zoe!
• We made a Venn diagram about real hippos and the silly hippos in our reading book.
• Hippopotamus means "water horse."