Fire
Safety Fire
Safety
Objectives:
Students will be able to recall what a smoke alarm and fire extinguisher are, their importance and how to maintain them.
Students will be able to recall their home fire escape plan.
Students will learn about the parts of a fire truck, a fireman suit and the career of a fireman.
Students will identify safety rules to prevent a fire in the home.
Students will be able to recall what to do if they experience a fire.
October 5-October 11 is Fire Safety Week.
We are leaning about this important topic in our classroom and had an exciting visit from a real fire truck!
The children asked the firemen great questions and learned the following important information about escape planning:
to find two ways out from every room in your home.
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We wrote letters to say thank you to the Montville Fire Department:
he children made Fireman puppet in the art center this week and took them home to ask their parents to check the batteries in their fire detectors at home.
For more safety rules about your fire detector and important fire safety rules, visit the websites below:
http://www.usfa.fema.gov/kids/
http://www.dos.state.ny.us/kidsroom/firesafe/firesafe.html
We also practiced how to STOP, DROP and ROLL! Remember these rules:
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We also read some books about fire safety and looked at fire escape plans. Here are some of the books we read and the posters we discussed.
Please take some time to have a family meeting to discuss a fire escape plan for your home. Do you:
Have 2 well defined ways out of each room in the house?
A central family meeting place once outside the home?
A working fire extinguisher?
Fresh batteries in your smoke alarms?
Know who to call once outside the home?
If you answered yes to these questions, take a few minutes to take this quiz and find out if you are ready to be junior fire marshal!
first way out should be a door. Every way needs to be planned and
practiced with grown-ups.
opening any door in a fire, feel it first. If it is hot, there may be fire
on the other side. Try to get out another way.
low to the floor when escaping a fire.
a safe and easy-to-remember place outside the home to meet your family
after you get out.
you get out, call 9-1-1 or the fire department.