Children compare firefighters and city workers, exploring safety gear and city repair. They learn the letter L, its phonic song, revisit the color green, and make a green sensory bottle and stuffed dates.
What children learn
- Describe how firefighters put out dangerous fires, promote fire safety, and rescue people and animals.
- Identify firefighters' protective gear and equipment, including suits, helmets, boots, ladders, hoses, and fire engines.
- Explain how city workers build and repair roads and bridges using safety gear and construction machinery.
- Recognise the letter L and its sound and reinforce recognition of the colour green.
Key activities
- Create flame process art with forks and red and yellow paint.
- Explore firefighter gear and make a blow-through fire-engine bag activity.
- Collaboratively build bridges from craft sticks, cups, cartons, and figurines.
- Meet firefighters and city workers and present painted rocks.
- Visit a fire station or roadwork site and recreate a fire station through dramatic play.
You’ll need
Firefighter and city-worker puppets, firefighter gear and fire-engine props, black paper, red and yellow paint, tissue paper and straws, ice-cream sticks, cups and boxes, figurines, rocks and brushes, letter L flashcards, green art materials.
Structure: 5 days; each day includes a Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, gross-motor development, integrated cognition/literacy or fine-motor work, and numeracy.