Firefighter Program

Along with all of the Dr. Seuss activities...we also enjoyed a presentation from Cameron Young's dad.  He is a local firefighter and he also brought Captain Tav Matthews along for a wonderful presentation on the life of a firefighter.  The children were part of a demo where they tried to see through cloudy vision to resemble a smoke filled room.  There were many wonderful questions asked by the children and some even said they wanted to grow up to become firefighters as well.  The firetruck was just an added extra plus.  We enjoyed our visit with them very much.  Another cool thing was that we were in the middle of celebrating our "marble jar" party for good behavior.  So we enjoyed pizza and cupcakes along with drinks while we had the presentation.  It was a wonderful day!

Dr. Seuss Day

We had an amazing day at school on Friday while we celebrated Dr. Seuss Day!. We first put on our cool "Thing" shirts to match the entire second grade where we lined up to parade through the school.  We had a great time. Earlier in the week, Kade Yocum represented our class in reading The Cat in the Hat on the radio station here in Portland.  Everyone in the entire school was dressed for the festivities which made it a lot of fun! We were also visited by PHS and their Dr Seuss Was Museum.  They did an incredible job and we just had to have our class pictures made with them.  Also, Jada Vance, a former student of Mrs. Black's was one of the characters and Jada was recently on American Idol representing talented singers from our area.  She made it into the top 25 I think and we are all so proud of her.  I included a shot of her, too.