Fire Prevention Week!

This week we have been focusing our learning on fire safety.  Students learned how to stop, drop and roll and the reasons why they would use this technique.  Teachings also focused on what to do at school in the case that the fire alarm would sound, jobs of fireman and other fire safety lessons. 

Here is one of our favorite readings from this week:

Firebears: The Rescue Team by Rhonda Gowler Greene is a fast moving story that captured the attention of the preschool children from beginning to end.  The rhyming nature of this book had the children eager to participate.

This week we practiced how to stop, drop and roll.  With our practice of the actions, we also focused on the reasoning of why and when we would use this practice.  Here is a student telling us what to do if our clothes catch on fire:



Here is one student showing us how to stop, drop and roll:

 
Along with the fire safety teachings of the week, we also focused on how to be safe at school in case of a fire.  We practiced what we would do in case of a fire at school.  Students were taught how to exit the building safely and follow their teachers to the class "safe" spot outside of the school building.

Please enjoy some of our fine motor work from this week:

 We watercolor painted a picture of a fireman.

We rolled a dice, counted the dots and than added that many spots to our fire dog.

After a week long unit on fire prevention the students shared with me some
of the things that they learned about fire.