Title: The Story of Sparky The Fire DogAuthor: National Fire Prevention Association
Genre: Fiction
Summary: This interactive story tells how Sparky became a firedog. In the beginning, Sparky follows some children from school and fell asleep outside of their house. Suddenly, Sparky woke up to smoke and ran to the firehouse. When the firefighters get the children’s house, Sparky was right behind them and concerned about the kids. After the fire was out, a firefighter brought Sparky to the children and told them that Sparky was a hero for letting them know about the fire. Since the children could not keep Sparky, the firefighters took him in and named him Sparky the Fire Dog.
Activity: The students will color and cut out Sparky the firedog. With the teachers assistance, line up the pieces of the dog and place bradleys through the black holes to hold the pieces in place. http://www.grovelandfire.com/images/sparky-craft.gif
Title: The Fire Station
Author: Robert Munsch
Illustrator: Michael Martchenko
Publisher: Annick Press
Publication Date:
Genre: Fiction
Summary: This is an adventurous story of two children, Michael and Shelia, and their visit to the fire station. In the midst of exploring a fire truck, the fire alarm goes off. The rest of the story is about them 'racing to the rescue!'
Activity: Provide the students with 7 long, slim rectangular pieces of tan paper. Take five rectangles and round one side of them to look like a match tip. Color the tips with red crayon and glue the bottoms them on one of the left over rectangles. Use the last rectangle to cover the base of the 'matches' by gluing it over the previous rectangle.
