“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” Margaret Mead

Friday, February 20, 2015

fire safety

Fire Safety week is officially in October, but we decided to wait until now. Chad Widener is a Sedgwick County Firefighter and approached me to do these presentations while his children were in preschool. I know we have other firefighter dads out there too. Chad got special permission from the Hesston Fire Department in order to come and visit our class.


What we learned this week:

  • Matches, lighters are dangerous and should only be handled by an adult
  • Make a "fire plan" to have an outside meeting place once you get out of the house
  • Get out and stay out (leave favorite toys, pets, etc. behind....:))
  • Make sure you have smoke alarms (and check the batteries 2 X a year)
  • stop, drop and roll
Most importantly, we had a visit from a firefighter and what fun that was!

Mr. Chad and his two preschoolers!

Mr. Chad talked about his fire gear

high - fives for the firefighter!

Now it's time to be jr. firefighters

even girls can be firefighters. love the red circled paper with the fire truck.

Jr. FF assistant in the TR AM session

the firefighter crawled around with his gear on!
Mr. Chad talked to us about how to be safe

putting out fires throughout the preschool. the guy on the left was putting a lot of fires out - he would ask, where's a fire? and then he promptly went and extinguished it!


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