Fire Safety

This last week at school, Kylie's class learned about fire safety. They had the local fire department come and talk to the kids and also a volunteer fire department that helps with a lot of the wildfires that happen around our area. Every day since Monday Kylie runs up to me and makes sure I know that if we have a fire we get out of the house and call 911, and you dial a 9 a 1 and a 1. Her favorite part of the week was on Thursday with the fire safety learning.
The Chickasaw Nation Forestry and Wild land Fire Management department came and brought Smokey the Bear to talk to the kids. As Gabryle and I got to the school and walked in, Smokey was leaving with the volunteer fire fighters and he just pointed and grinned to make sure I saw what he was seeing. Smokey waved at Gabryle and he waved back. We then walked in the school and got Kylie and she started telling me how Smokey the Bear came to see her class but she did not give him a hug cause he was a little weird. We ran into her teacher while waiting on Kenzie to get out and she stopped and we chatted for a minute and let me know that Kylie would bring a bag home with some goodies that Smokey left for them.
Yesterday Kylie and I sat after school with her backpack and went through the goodies. There were multiple coloring books, informational leaflets for the parents, pencil, an eraser and 2 DVDs. Each child received the same things. I was surprised to see 2 DVDs in the bag. One was about how to keep your house a little safer out doors from fires starting, and the other was a little five minute animated short about how to prevent fires. Kylie just stayed glued to the TV and computer when we watched them and told me everything about it when we were through watching it. After we watched the animated one on the computer we looked at some of the additional information it had on the disk and have decided later this evening we will print some of the coloring sheets off.
We'll end up watching the DVDs a few times between now and who knows when. She loves watching it for some reason, but at least its educational.

Till Next Time!