FIREMAN SMALL by Wong Herbert Yee

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

A FIRE TRUCK’S DAY, by Lily Schell, Illustrated by Mike Byrne

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

FIRE STATIONS IN ACTION by Mari Schuh

We are still talking about community helpers this month. This book is a great one to use, to talk about firefighters in general and to remind our children about fire safety. On this page, we talked about fire hoses, masks and the helmets the firefighters wear. We were lucky enough to be able to see … More FIRE STATIONS IN ACTION by Mari Schuh

FRED THE FIREFIGHTER by Felicity Brooks, Illustrated by Jo Litchfield

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