Do You Hear the Fire Truck? Lesson Plan
Academic Standards
Reading Objective:
Children will identify the parts of a fire truck and the sounds they make.
Social Studies Focus:
community helpers
Health and Safety Focus:
fire safety
Page 4 Skill:
letter recognition
Vocabulary:
boots, hose, ladder, firefighters, firehouse
CCSS:
RI.K.1, RI.K.4, RF.K.2, SL.K.2
- Watch our video Firefighters Suit Up!
- Afterward, ask children to name a piece of firefighter gear they learned about and tell how it protects the firefighter.
- Read the magazine together.
- After finishing each section, ask kids to make the sound.
- Then play our Dance Break video and move like fi refi ghters!
- Finally, use the Show What You Know printable to assess comprehension and build early literacy skills.
- Use our online game Dress the Firefighter to build firefighting gear vocabulary.
- With our F Is for Firehouse skill sheet, kids search around the firehouse for hidden objects that start with F.
Materials: crayons, glue, craft sticks, and pre-cut shapes: one red rectangle, two black circles, one red square, and one white square per fire truck. Tip: If you don’t have construction paper in different colors, you can use white paper and color it with crayons.
- Kids can glue the shapes to a piece of paper to make a fire truck. Use positional words to direct them:
- Glue the rectangle to the middle.
- Glue the circles under the rectangle.
- Glue the red square next to the rectangle.
- Glue the white square inside the red square.
- Let kids draw themselves in the white square. To make a ladder, kids can glue on two craft sticks and draw lines between them.