Fire Safety and Soccer

September 30 - October 11

Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten learned to stop, drop and roll if their clothes caught on fire.

They also learned the song, "I'm a little firefighter" to the tune "I'm a Little Teapot."

I'm a little firefighter, strong and brave.
Here is my ax; I'm here to save.
When I here the phone ring;  (ring, ring) here me shout,
Fire! Fire! Everybody out!

We also played stop, drop and roll tag. When tagged students stop, drop and roll and then get back up and run again.   Pictured below are kindergarten students playing fire and smoke tag.  If someone with a red fleece ball touches a student, the student is to stop, drop and roll to put the fire out and sit on the ground and wait for a fireman (person in yellow jersey) to touch and free him/her.  If a student is touched by a blue fleece ball he/she must crawl out of the smoke until a fireman touches and frees him/her.

1st - 6th grade also played stop, drop and roll tag.  The older grades enjoyed ambulance tag.  For this game everyone is on a scooter except the four ambulance drivers who are in the jump circle.  On go, 2-4 students with red jerseys sitting on the scooters pursue others on scooters and try to catch their house on fire.  If touched the person puts both hands over his head and yells, "911 my house is on fire."  The ambulance drivers come and push the person to the hospital, jump circle, where the person does five push ups and then leaves the hospital.

Students worked on a soccer unit.  Their vocabulary words were instep, trap, goal, offense and defense, dominant and non-dominant foot.

Students played Steal the Treasure where all but 4-7 students have balls.  Students must move the ball with their feet and protect their treasure.  The pirates, those without balls, are trying to steal the balls.  When the whistle blows you are a winner if you have a "treasure."

Students practiced drills of moving the soccer ball around cones, making goals, passing the soccer ball to a partner and being a goalie.

Fourth, fifth and sixth enjoyed playing on teams of 5 where 3 were offense and 2 defense.  The defense stayed and protected the goal while the three offensive members traveled to other goals trying to score.  If they scored they brought a cone back to their goal.  In the end we counted to see which team scored the most goals.