This morning we reviewed the topic of safety by discussing our book from yesterday, Officer Buckle and Gloria. We read, The Berenstain Bears: Safe and Sound by Jan and Mike Berenstain to add further thoughts on the topic. In this selection, the bears don’t want to wear their safety equipment when skateboarding because it isn’t comfortable and some of the other kids aren’t wearing gear. However, one of the other children are injured from falling and the bears see how important wearing the safety gear truly is. We then completed a follow-up activity to see the cause and effect of unsafe behaviors. Next, we read, David Gets in Trouble by David Shannon. In this selection, precocious little David gets in lots of trouble at home by not following the rules. In follow up, Danny and I began his year-long interactive social studies notebook. He decorated the cover and we started the first page, “Rules Keep Me Safe”. We then focused on rules at home. Danny and I discussed for good rules for in the home. He copied the words to write them on the flip pages for his book. His rules are: 1. Never run in the house. 2. No fighting. 3. Share my toys. 4. Say please and thank you. He colored all relevant pieces to help make our notebook look nice. Finally, we watched a Brain Pop Jr. learning video about Safety Signs. These showed us that signs use words and symbols to share information to keep us safe. These include things such as crosswalks and wet floors. We learned that colors are used as well, such as red warns us to stop or be ready to stop. Yellow warns us of special areas and the need for caution. Orange and black signs warn of us construction areas. Danny did a nice job on the follow-up easy quiz in which text answers were offered in two choices, while pictorial responses were in a field of four. He scored 5/5 on the quiz.