Reading Buddies:
We visit our First Grade Children twice a year both in the Fall and Spring. Our Fall program is currently being re-worked.
For our Spring Program, we bring our “Hazard House” to the school. This “Hazard House” is really a pull behind E.D.I.T.H. trailer that has two classrooms where we teach exit drills to our students. We introduce/review the concepts of a fire escape plan and then practice them right there. After activating smoke detectors, we have the children crawl low under stage smoke that is piped throughout the trailer. They exit to a meeting place and then go to a “neighbor’s house” to “call 911”. It is an excellent hands-on learning experience for our children.
Our second visit to the Kindergarten children, like the Pre-K, involves us simply going to their room and reading fire safety stories to them in our uniforms.
Click on links below to see actual stories written by school students in our District!
Click here to read an article written about the first Reading Buddies program in action.