Fire Prevention Week

The kids delighted in a visit from the Carmen Fire Department on Tuesday.  This created a lovely jumping off point to integrate some reading and writing opportunities. Here is a video showing the kids "reading" a poem called "Firefighter".  They are using firefighter puppets that they made to point to each word.  Tracking print from left to right and having the concept of a word is critical to early reading development.  Take a look-

I hope you will ask your K kid to have their firefighter puppet "read" the poem to you!

This week's "Let's Find Out" magazine also focused on fire safety and included a diagram of a fire truck. The kids learned how a diagram is a picture that includes labels to teach us new things.  Then the kids made their own fire trucks that included some of the objects that were included on the firetruck diagram.  Here is another short video showing them working hard!