Kindergarten Curriculum

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The Rancho Santa Fe Fire Protection District offers a 30-minute age appropriate program designed to teach kindergarten students about the common fire dangers affecting their age group and ways to stay safer.

Kindergarten Lesson Plans (pdf)

Matches and Lighters Are Tools, Not Toys
This lesson discusses the difference between tools that adults use and toys that children play with. Large-scale matches and lighter props are used to emphasize the importance of keeping "hands off" and telling an adult when dangerous tools like these are found lying around.

Stop, Drop and Roll
The stop, drop and roll lesson explains how fire can easily burn skin, and how to extinguish a fire if it's on skin or clothing. Students are asked to volunteer to help with the lesson and demonstrate the proper stop, drop and roll technique.

Firefighters Are Our Friends
As a "refresher," much like the preschool program, this lesson explores the different clothing and equipment firefighters must wear during a fire. Firefighters demonstrate and explain how their gear may look (and often sound) a little scary, but underneath the clothes, it's just a friendly firefighter ready to help in an emergency. Students are told never to hide during a fire, they should always find the safest way outside to their family meeting place.