Day 55- Fire Station # 2 Visit
What a fun day we had on our Neighborhood Walk to Fire Station #2!
As usual, we began our day with our Welcome Circle. I continue to be amazed at the length of the children's attention spans. This circle was 30 minutes! We focused on reading our friends and teacher's names with the picture cue hidden. Once we all guessed the name, we uncovered the picture to see if we were right.
Our book today was 'A Fireman', an easy reader with a simple repetitive pattern and several Everyday Words. We have small individual copies for each child, but haven't had time to make them. We will send them home tomorrow for the children to color and read at home.
Ms. Angela was a big hit today. She taught us how to play baseball, We learned the name of all the bases, including 'home', which really did look like a house! We each took turns hitting the ball and running all the bases. After we sang our closing song, we closed our huddle with a huge "baseball" cheer!
Then we were on our way to Fire Station #2! The fire fighters allowed us to climb around in Engine #2, showed us their bedrooms, bathroom, and kitchen. We watched Fire Fighter Joe put on his gear: boots, pants, jacket, mask, backpack, and hat. We heard him breathing and learned what to do in case of fire: crawl and scream! See our adorable picture in front of Ladder #2 below.
While on our walk we were overcome by three wonderful smells: the donut factory, the pizza shop, and lunch cooking in fire station kitchen. Needless to say, when we arrived back at school we were all starving! After lunch, we completed our journals. Ms. Tiffany helped us practice 'stop, drop and roll' and we acted out a fire scene. A short 'show and tell' and our day was done!
We look forward to visiting with Officer Wade and his cool car tomorrow!
