We continued to celebrate our community helpers this month by reading this book and learning about fire safety. Fireman Small saved the cat! We all put up our hands and shouted “hooray” too! This book has wonderful rhymes and repeats, so the children can say it with me. (They don’t need to know rhyming and … More FIREMAN SMALL by Wong Herbert Yee
October is Community Helper Month! We are so lucky to have officers on duty at our school! This past week, they brought their police vehicles for us to explore and showed us their uniforms. We want to take a moment to thank our police officers for keeping us safe and for taking the time to … More THE POLICE STATION by Aaron Carr
We wrapped up our community helper month with a fire truck visit and a book to go with it. Our vocabulary word was handline. If you watch the video above, toward the end, you will see the firefighter showing us their handline. We talked about fire safety. Do we touch a hot flame of any … More A FIRE TRUCK’S DAY, by Lily Schell, Illustrated by Mike Byrne
It is community helper month at our school! Uniform! Badge! Radio! Police officers getting ready to go! “When people need help, we rock and roll!” These police officers helped direct traffic, found a lost child, and went after bank robbers. Practicing 911. I cannot find my source for this phone, sorry – you can try … More POLICE OFFICERS ON PATROL by Kersten Hamilton, illustrated by R.W.Alley
I use sounds from Spotify to add to this story. A fire alarm, the sound of a fire engine, the sound of a dog barking and the sound of glass breaking (when he uses his ax to break the window). It really seems to pull the children into the story. They especially love to follow … More FRED THE FIREFIGHTER by Felicity Brooks, Illustrated by Jo Litchfield
by Linda Hayward This is a wonderful book to use to talk about our community helpers, the firefighters. And about fire safety… Do you know where to find a fire extinguisher? We practiced staying near the floor “crawling under the smoke”: Our heroes rescuing a dog: We reviewed this wonderful worksheet from https://www.thingstoshareandremember.com/preschool-fire-safety-booklet-printables/ We were … More A Day in the Life of a Firefighter…