We had a lovely, informative, organized-by-someone-else homeschool field trip today, and I was thrilled! About 140 homeschoolers (including younger siblings and parents) gathered at the fire station for a series of activities.
JediBoy liked examining all the equipment close-up.
BabyGirl was thrilled to have inherited her brother’s fleece fireman’s hat!
The firefighters taught the kids about fire safety and equipment. The K-1st group had a little lesson and then took turns “sleeping” on a cot, hearing the smoke detector, crawling to the door, feeling the knob, opening the door and crawling to safety. The 2nd-4th group went on a fire scavenger hunt in three different rooms, and the 5th-and-up group had a lesson on the history of firefighting and equipment. The kids were given a pizza lunch and a chance to explore the trucks, and the firefighters even demonstrated their jaws of life and popped the roof off a car. (Not mine, thankfully!)
Both of my kids loved dressing up…
and sitting in the big trucks!
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