Self-Rescue: Stop, Drop and Roll

Thursday (28/01/2010)

a) Flashcards b) What have you learnt?
c) Analysing: Fire Experiment d) Self-Rescue: Stop, Drop and Roll

a) Flashcards
* We read some words that we have learnt in this theme:
* Fire, firefighter, fire truck, hose, axe, gloves, fire station, ladder, rescue dog, emergency, 994, 999, help, matches, smoke alarm, experiment, town, society and charity.

b) What have you learnt?
Teacher: What have you learnt from the film: Let’s Go To The Fire Station?
Devin: Trucks can be different colour.
Xing Tong: Rescue dogs also save little dogs.
Kwong Yong: Firefighters save injured people.
Foo Soon: They put on safety uniform and put out the fire.
Qian Joe: I like the Fire Station.
Big Xing Tong: Always think when we have problems.
Jing Kai: We learnt how to save ourselves!
Chun Kit: I remembered they taught us how to crawl below the smoke.
Teacher: Yes…..that’s very important. Excellent!

c) Analysing: Fire Experiment
* Some children like playing fire with matches or fireworks. What happens if you caught fire? Can you
run?
Jun Hong: No! It will be bigger.
Teacher: Are you sure? Let’s look at our candle experiment again.
Thank you Zhe Qing for bringing us a glass jar.
* I lit the candle and they observed the colour of fire. The hottest is blue while yellow not so hot. When I blow, it went off. Jun Hong said fire needs Oxygen. We breathe in deeply a few times to illustrate Oxygen. Then I blew the candle and it went off. Why? Because I blew away the Oxygen with force and of course there’s my Carbon Dioxide.
* I lit again. They observed that the fire is moving. Why? Because the wall fan is still on…..haaaaa!
* Zhe Qing’s jar has got Oxygen too. We took turns to listen to the air movement inside the jar. I covered the candle with Zhe Qing’s jar. Just about 3 seconds it went off. Why? Because……the fire has used up the limited Oxygen in the jar.
* From this experiment, now we know that when we run, we encourage more Oxgen to burn us!

d) Self-Rescue: Stop, Drop and Roll
* If our clothes caught fire, we should immediately STOP, DROP and ROLL. The rolling is to discourage the Oxygen burn us further. So, we learnt to sing the song first. With 5 mattresses on the floor, each kid tried to STOP, DROP and ROLL
* They enjoyed themselves. Initially a few kids were afraid like Zhi Feng and Chia Yen. After that, they just loved it!