The first book we read was How Things Work: Fire Trucks by Joanne Mattern. We used this book to identify vocabulary when talking about fire trucks and to get students familiar with the trucks and equipment that firefighters use.

Next we read This is the Firefighter by Laura Godwin and worked on our retelling skills. They learned about what happens when a firefighter hears the alarm at a firehouse and races to the rescue.

Then we answered questions as we read. To do this I like to read the book before I read it to my kids. I create a list of questions, print them out on sticky notes, and place them into the book where I want to ask them. I read aloud The Fire Station by Julie Murray. This book discusses what happens at the fire station and why it is important within our community.

Our final readings for the week were fire safety themed emergent readers. There are two versions in my Fire Safety Preschool Unit which is available on Teachers Pay Teachers. One version has the word and a picture clue. The second version has a simple sentence with the same picture clue. I used the word only version with my 4 year old.

We focused on letters but keep with the theme of preschool fire safety activities by matching the upper-case and lower-case letters on the printed cards. My daughter is working on letter recognition with those lower-case letters still so this was good practice for her. We flipped all the cards over and made it into a game.

Next we wrote our names in crayon on paper and used watercolor paints to resist the wax in the crayon. This is a great art and name activity.

We used the cards from our matching activity to write our letters in sand. My daughter said the name of each letter and then wrote it into the sand. I got this sand tray from Target’s dollar spot a few months ago.

This flip and cover mat was a lot of fun. The upper-case and lower-case letters were both printed on the cards. My daughter identified the letters and found them on the mat. Then she covered them with the small fire pieces from our ten frame activity.

The final literacy activity for the week was a sticker match. I printed the fire truck mat and used these stickers to write the letters on. You could do upper or lower case letters on the stickers but I had them match lower to upper-case for this activity.

We focused on the numbers 1-15 with these counting clip cards. This is a great activity for 1 to 1 counting and fine motor skills. Instead of using clothespins this time I had these number erasers I got from Target’s dollar spot. We lined them up in numerical order and got to work counting. I had the extra numbers to make 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 set aside so it wouldn’t confuse my daughter.

Next we moved on to ten frames. Each frame had the number in the top right corner. She counted out the pieces and placed them into the ten frame.

We used dice for the next number activity. This worked with numbers 1-6, probability, and number writing. She rolled the dice and for each turn wrote the number she rolled. The goal is to fill up the board completely.

This make a pattern activity involves cutting, pasting , and patterns. There are three patterns on the sheet and they are all abc patterns. We went over the patterns together and she completed them by gluing on the final piece.

The final of our preschool fire safety activities for math was number puzzles. My daughter had a lot of fun putting these together to see the big picture.

I like to set up the sensory bin at the beginning of the week so they have all week to play with it. In the preschool fire safety activities sensory bin, I used:

• Pipe Cleaners
• Firemen Figures – these are from Fireman Sam which was a favorite show of my son
• Scoopers – these come in a 4 pack
• Wooden Scoops
• Black Sand
• Mini Firetrucks

The next activity was a hot or not sort. This was a great activity to help identify objects around the house that could be dangerous for students to play with.

We took turns practicing stop, drop, and roll. We also discussed evacuation plans in the event of an emergency. I used the stop, drop, and roll cards to go over the steps in the process and had my kids try it out.

For science we introduced some scientific vocabulary. We talked about hypotheses and how scientists make educated guesses. Then we discussed what they think would happen if we placed a glass jar over a lit candle. After completing the experiment we came back and drew what happeend and if we were correct or not.

Our final activity for the week was a culmination of the unit. We made a fire safety booklet with important information for fire safety and prevention that we learned during the week.