Fire Prevention Week
Posted by Diane Badden on 10 Oct 2012 | Posted in: Drawings and Giveaways, Holiday and Seasonal, Student Activities
Yes, it’s Fire Prevention Week 2012 (October 7-13)! This year’s theme, “Have Two Ways Out,” reminds us that planning not one, but two escape routes is an essential part of any fire escape plan. Promise me you’ll spend some time this week discussing fire safety with your students. Better yet, tell me how you and your students are recognizing Fire Prevention Week, and I’ll
enter your name in a giveaway for a free book from The Mailbox! Just be sure to leave your comment on this blog before midnight, Monday, October 15.
Thank you!
Diane
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We read a book about fire engines and changed the batteries in our fire alarms so they would be fresh and ready to go if there was an emergency.
During fire safety week, we practice fire drills with all of our classes, have each child do “Stop, Drop and Roll” and talk about when to call “911″
Our fire department comes to visit our school and talks to the students about fire safety. They bring their ladder and equipment trucks and also the rescue squad and the children all get a chance to go inside and look around.
One very fun activity they do with students is have them dress one of the firemen. They bring several different seasonal hats, coats, gloves and boots, along with their fire gear and the students tell the firemen if what he is putting on is the correct item. Once the fireman is completely dressed he doesn’t seem so scary as they have helped dress him.
Mary H
My kindergarten students practiced “Stop, Drop, and Roll. We had a fire drill and they practiced calling 911 and giving their addresses. As a class we check to make sure our smoke detector worked and decided to ask parents to check the ones in their homes. We had a discussion on two ways out. We found the ones in our room and talked about home options.
Our local fire department came for a visit and taught us about fire safety!
Our local firefighters come and do a presentation on smoke alarms. Show what they look like in their fire fighters gear (so young children won’t be afraid), bring the big fire truck and show a video about “Don’t Hide, Get Outside”. It is a great time and the kids love going home to check out their smoke alarms and share the information they received from the fire fighters with their family. Classrooms do individual reading, craft projects and additional support for Fire Safety Week. Thank you to our men and women firefighters that help keep us informed to keep us all safe.
We practice stop, drop, and roll, by placing a red hair scrunchey on the child’s arm to represent fire.
The class I teach is preschool and the children respond better to visuals. Another thing we do is to hold a sheet and have the children crawl under, the sheet represents smoke. Our family project is to set a safe meeting place. There is an awesome fireman in our area that has a side buisness “Stan the Fireman”, he does a safety/magic presentation to the student and then they get to ride on his firetruck. The firetruck is a small train painted like a firetruck. The kid love him! Our finally to the week i to have a fireman dress in his turnout gear in front of the children. He has to be a fireman that the children can touch. The resperator they breath thru uually scares kids this age, so it is very important that they feel confortable with the fireman.
We have a fire drill planned for this week and we will be reading a book about fire drills, so children will feel more comfortable when they hear the alarm!
Our firemen came and ate lunch with our students. They LOVED getting to sit and chat with these local heroes. After lunch we got to go look at their truck, and stand with them for a cute class picture. The FD also came out to our school to share with the students the importance of having an escape plan, and checking your smoke detectors. They kicked off our city’s poster contest by announcing the theme “Have Two Ways Out”.
We have 60 preschoolers in our school so the firetruck visits our school. We meet the firefighter and get to see his firetruck. He tells us the important facts we should know to be fire safe. The children ask questions and respond to his questions. We have fire drills in our classroom and also in our school. We learn in the classroom, the entire month of October, the main points of fire safety such as emergency #911, stay low & go, don’t hide/go outside, never play with matches/lighters, have a meeting place, have a family plan, plan two escapes whenever possible, don’t open a door if the door/knob is hot, and stop, drop & roll, which is, of course, an all time favorite. We play a game in which we put red streamers with tape on one end on the children’s back and they have to stop, drop & roll for practice. Each child closes their eyes while the person who is “it” places the pretend fire on another child’s back. Then we yell, ___ you’re on fire, stop drop and roll quickly. Each child gets a turn choosing the next one to be on fire and also to stop, drop, & roll. We read fire safety stories sing fire songs and also do some fire art work.
We read our Clifford magazine, then watch the video online on my smartboard(new to me this year) I also found a video on pinterest.com that we watched. I teach 3-5yr old special education students. So I had to have something that would catch their attention.
We had the firemen do three stations for our kids. The first one was about the equipment they use. The second one was about their gear they wear. And the third one was stop, drop, and roll. We are also reading stories and worksheets about fire prevention.
The fire fighters came to speak to the kids, they did a fire escape plan with their parents, and will be entering a fire prevention poster contest.