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Sunday, October 26, 2014

Smokey the Bear Forest Fire Safety Unit Part 4 & FREEBIES!

Smokey the Bear Forest Fire Safety Unit Part 4 & FREEBIES!

L@@ks like we made it to our 4th and final post covering our Smokey the Bear Forest Fire Safety Unit! If you missed our previous for this unit you can click on the following links to read up & grab MORE FREEBIES:

Part 1 - Wildfire Safety Introduction & FREEBIE

Part 2 - Fire Triangle & FREEBIE

Part 3 - Glad Smokey, Sad Smokey Flabbelboard & Pocket Chart Games & FREEBIE

Thus far, we have learned much about forestry and wildfires. Now that we know the basics, we are ready to learn how to use what we learned when camping. We go camping with our FAV Smokey Bear's Camping Book filled with forest lore, safety tips and outdoor fun for young readers:

This book covers just about every camping safety tip you can think of all with a few words and many illustrations. This book follows the Peterson's National Park camping adventures. These campers receive a visit from the ranger and their FAV bear, Smokey:

Smokey stays to help them set up their camp. They discuss important camping items needed along with some helpful hints to keep food from the forest creatures:

Smokey takes the children on a hike and shows them how to make a trail and to l@@k out for weather signs:

First Aid basics comes in handy while camping. Smokey covers what to l@@k out for and what to do if you get hurt in the wilderness:

They set up a little overnight camp spot while Smokey shows the children how to build a wilderness campfire and how to purify water for drinking:

And with Smokey's help, they had a wonderful time and arrived safely back at camp with promises to visit him again next year:

If you like to camp, this book is an EXCELLENT addition to add to your curriculum. You can get one from Amazon here:

But eBay has more to select from:

Smokey Bear's Camping Book

Either way, be sure to get Smokey's Camping book for your babes!

We made our own camp fire using paper towel & tp rolls, brown tempera paint, glue gun, school glue & tissue paper. Have your child paint each tube brown, let dry. Then arrange them on a piece of cardboard & using your glue gun, glue each tube in place. Remember this glue is HOT, so take care NOT to burn fingers...OUCH!!! Then with the school glue, glue pieces on crumpled red, orange, yellow, we even added some blue tissue on the tubes to represent fire:

We buy our paints by the gallon. You can get some washable brown tempera from Amazon:

You can find quite a selection on eBay:

Brown Tempera Paint Gallon

We also get our glue in gallon containers. You can get a gallon for your babes from Amazon:

or select from eBay:

School Glue Gallon

Need a glue gun or ready for a replacement? Here is a nice mini one for child use:

or select any type from eBay:

Mini Glue Gun

A pack of 100 glue sticks ensures plenty of gluing activity fun:

more from eBay:

Mini Glue Gun Sticks 100 Count

What about tissue paper? Here is an array of 100 20" X 26" brilliantly colored sheets from Amazon:

Here is a large selection from eBay:

Tissue Paper

Now that we know about forestry basics & made a pretend campfire, we played our Let's Visit Smokey Bear Boardgame. Each child colored their own gameboard, then we mounted them on a piece of tagboard to add sturdiness:

If you need some tagboard, here is some from Amazon:

White Medium Weight:                             White Heavy Weight:

18" X 24"           24" X 36"                        18" X 24"           24" X 36"

Manilla Light Weight:            Manilla Heavy Weight:

24" X 36"                                      22.5" X 28.5"

a nice array, even colors is offered from eBay:

Tagboard

I wrote their names on the gameboard so each child could use their own gameboard to play. They chose a marker & rolled the dice in rote.

They moved their marker along their board. The one who finished first won the game but the others wanted to keep on playing until they reached Smokey:

Now for your FREEBIE! Your own Smokey the Bear Boardgame just like ours for your babes to play from our AKGVH Teacher's Notebook Store:

Let's Visit Smokey Bear Boardgame

Well, that wraps up our Smokey the Bear Forest Fire Safety Unit for this year. We hope you have enjoyed our unit and come back next year for MORE Smokey the Bear activities!

C.S. Calkins

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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Smokey the Bear Forest Fire Safety Unit Part 3 & FREEBIE!

Smokey the Bear Forest Fire Safety Unit Part 3 & FREEBIE!

In our first Smokey the Bear Forest Fire Safety Unit post, Part 1 (If you missed it, click here: Smokey the Bear Forest Fire Safety Unit Part 1) I introduced the unit using vintage Smokey posters, Smokey Bulletin Boards, records, theater plays, and videos.

Our second post (If you missed part 2, click here: Smokey the Bear Forest Fire Safety Unit Part 2 ) we learned about Fire Triangles, did an experiment and made a fire triangle for our Wildfire Chart Center.

Both Parts one & two include FREEBIES for you to print out available at our Teacher's Notebook Store:

AKGVH Teacher's Notebook Store

This here third post are pocket chart and flannel board games covering the right and wrong of forest behavior. The name of these games is "Glad Smokey & Sad Smokey." What makes Smokey glad? What makes Smokey sad? (You can find your FREEBIE Glad & Sad Smokey Puppets at the bottom of this post.)

Using our pocket chart first, I introduced Smokey's Forestry rules, right and wrong in detail. I wrote sentences on sentence strips and added the matching picture as I read each one. I asked the children, "Does this make Smokey Glad or Sad?" as I placed the picture next to its sentence.

I have made an entire 61 page pack featuring large color, large B & W, small color, & small B & W pictures with sentences available here for purchase:

Glad & Sad Smokey Flannelboard & Pocket Chart Pictures & Sentences Pack

In the pack I included the above sentences and pictures in both color and B & W. To save on computer ink, you may want to write out the sentences on sentence strips like I did. Here are some from Amazon:

my fav is manilla:

but you can get them in white:

they come in assorted colors as well...excellent color addition to thematic units or for filing purposes:

Need some markers? Here are some value packs. One in black:

and one in 4 assorted colors:

eBay has an assortment to choose from with one click:

Permanent Markers

For those of you who prefer using dry erase sentence strips, they come in white:

or assorted colors:

DIG these magnetic sentence strips...have not tried them as of yet but they are on my LIST!!! They come in white or assorted colors:

eBay has a large assortment including regular, sentence strips on a roll, pre-cut, some feature thematic headers or boarders, are dry erase, etc:

Sentence Strips

Need to store those strips? I clip mine to keep them in order and from getting lost:

but you can get some of these handy yet sturdy cardboard sentence strip stroage boxes. This one from Amazon comes with 4 dividers:

Here is a huge assortment of sentence strip storage boxes on eBay:

Sentence Strip Storage Boxes

If you need some dry erase markers to use with your dry erase regular or magnetic sentence strips, here is a $$$ saving pack of black:

This is a nice pack of 16 assorted colors at a sweet price. Assorted colors are the BOMB for highlighting phonics, vocabulary words, color association, math symbols, themeatic units, etc:

Good deals on dry erase markers these from eBay:

Dry Erase Markers

Need a standard pocket chart or find your current chart a bit shabby or unsuitable? Check these out from Amazon:

In black...SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!

Red is nice for a Fire, Christmas or Valentine Unit:

More from eBay:

Standard Pocket Chart

Then we did a Glad Smokey, Sad Smokey Flannelboard game. I printed out the pictures on milk filters. They make excellent flannelboard pieces. You will have to cut the filters to fit your printer. Insert the filters one at a time when printing. You can get some of these bodaciously boss filters here:

Hamby Dairy Supply Milk Filters

I spread out the felt pictures and had each child in rote choose a picture, then decide if the picture made Smokey glad or sad. Here is our finished flannelboard game:

Next I had each child color a Glad & Sad Smokey:

We cut them out and put them on tongue depressors. If you are in need of tongue depressors, Amazon has some:

eBay has quite a selection:

Tongue Depressors

When their Smokey's are dry, re-read the sentences. Have the children raise either "Glad" or "Sad" Smokey in the air.

You can play this game with your babes using our FREEBIE Glad Smokey, Sad Smokey Stick Puppet Patterns LINKY from our AKGVH Teacher's Notebook Store. These come in color and B & W to choose from:

Glad Smokey Sad Smokey at AKGVH Store

Well, hope you were diggin' our Smokey the Bear Forest Fire Safety Unit Part 3 & FREEBIE! Come visit us again for part 4 featuring our Smokey the Bear gameboard FREEBIE!! See you there!!

Smokey Bear Forest Fire Safety Unit Part 4

C.S. Calkins