Fire Safety

Wednesday (27/01/2010)
a) Song: The Thinking Song
b) Magazine: The Town and Society
c) Discussion: Chinese New Year
d) Continuation of DVD: Let’s Go To the Fire Station
e) Experiment: Fire

a) Song: The Thinking Song
* We recapped on the song. Zhe Qing and Xing Tong said they sang that at home.
* We sang smoother this time with better tune. They could understand better about the song. Older Xing Tong said when she couldn’t take her body shampoo from the shelf, she would ask her parents for help.
* Then we reviewed our letter and pictures for our heroes, the firefighters. We have bound them into a big book card. Wow…..we hope that the firefighters would love them…J

b) Magazine: The Town and Society
* We recapped the meaning of “town” and “society”.
* Jun Yu shared his magazines of a town and of a group of people working in a town. Examples: policeman from the police station, taxi driver near the bus station and teachers from the school.
* Then, we looked back at our little clay town. We recapped at the places. Then, I read out a few of their parents’ occupations. Example: Foo Soon’s father works in a telecommunication company which could be near our clay shops. His mother is a hairdresser also near there. Yun Xin’s parents are teachers from the school opposite the Fire Station. We used a mini car to imagine the route. First, sending the kids to the school. Then, passing the roundabout and go to work. Maybe in the afternoon, brought them to the bakery to buy some bread.
* Then, we talked about the little charity function near the Fire Station.
Teacher: Have you thought of what charity to do? Maybe, we will be combining this
activity with other classes.
Jun Hong: I can collect my Ang Pow and give to them.
Yun Wen: I have a coin box with coins to donate to them.
Teacher: Can we do something instead as a class? Since we don’t work, what can we do?
* The class thought that baking cookies to sell might be a good idea. So, I got them to ask if any of their mothers is able to be our part time baker just for that day.:)

c) We can perform
* This morning, we saw the other class kids perform Lion Dance. Suddenly, the class got excited and said they wanted to perform that too.
Jun Hong: Maybe we can perform together with them for the Firefighters when we visit the Fire Station.
* So, I discussed with them in the afternoon. Since they have done lion dance last year, they preferred something else. 50% chose Tiger Dance and 50% chose Dragon Dance. Wushu teacher explained to the kids that Tiger Dance is similar to Lion Dance only that its head movement is more active.
* As it was a tough decision, I asked the kids to think about it. Foo Soon said he would draw tigers and bring to school. Jun Yu said he has a dragon model at home. Shi Jie said it might be heavy for the kids. Let’s see what influence them later.

d) Continuation of DVD: Let’s Go To the Fire Station
* We watched how they conducted Fire Safety to the public. We leant that
- if we caught fire, we must “Stop, Drop and Roll”
- If there was smoke, we must “Go Low and Move”
- Smoke Alarm comes in different sounds. Upon hearing, we must quickly leave everything and
rescue ourselves out of the house and call the emergency number.
- Firefighters are hero. Anyone can be hero: bog or small.
- They saw that the rescue dog was well trained to save people and other animals….wow!
- We would learn more about these safeties.

f) Experiment: Fire
* We discussed that this experiment cannot be done alone. I lit a candle and then I blew it. It went off. Why? I lit again. I closed with a jar. It went off again. Why? I asked them to think about it.