Fire Prevention Teaching Activities for Preschool and Kindergarten

A part of my previous post included photographic resources that can be used when teaching children about common household items that can cause a fire and burn.  There's a PowerPoint, a PDF, and a collection of photos that can easily be downloaded.  Here's the link to the post where you can find these free resources:  PREVIOUS POST. 

Today's post will describe the pieces that are included in my Fire Safety and Fire Prevention packet.  The packet is designed to target preschool and kindergarten skills.  It includes nine bingo cards that display common household items which can become hot and burn.  The items I've chosen to use are a fireplace, iron, candle, matches, lighter, oven, light bulb, hair dryer, and a hot drink.  In addition to the traditional calling cards, I've also included cue cards which can be used in place of the calling cards.  The cue cards build language by describing the vocabulary words in the first person point of view.  

Reviewing concepts is essential to long term memory development!  There is a sheet for students to find and circle potentially hot things.  This sheet can be used to recall information that the students learned through the bingo game.

"Ff is for Firefighter!"  Building letter knowledge is a component of every preschool and kindergarten curriculum.  A practice sheet is provided for the lowercase and uppercase Ff.  This could be used during the week that the letter Ff is taught or it can be used as a review page afterward.

Preschoolers and kindergartners have immature auditory processing skills.  Fortunately, this is a skill that can be strengthened with deliberate practice!  The listening activity sheet is designed with this in mind.  The teacher names one of the household items shown on the coloring sheet and verbally assigns a color to the object.  The students color the item as directed by the teacher.  Unless you are combining color recognition skills with listening skills (not recommended) it is important that the students know nine basic colors in advance of the activity.  The colors are:  red, yellow, blue, green, purple, orange, brown, pink, and black.

Children love destination games!  The firefighter games require students to move one or two spaces on a path until they reach the end spot.  The spaces on the path are small so you will need to use small game markers such as novelty erasers.  This game is best played by pairing a student that needs support with a child that is strong in counting and strong in one to one correspondence.  This will be helpful for accurately moving the game markers through the path.  Additionally, I would not attempt paired partnerships with this game for levels below kindergarten.

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That's all for now!

Molly McMahon
Lessons by Molly