Safety – Older Children – I know the emergency telephone number

Kindergarteners will listen to a story entitled “Snow White”, which will be a perfect introduction to conversations about the emergency numbers. They will listen to the song about emergency telephone number, do a worksheet entitled “Emergency number” and practice “calling” the emergency number. They will know when they should call the emergency number and what they should say.

Materials:

a story entitled “Snow White”, cards with the numbers, beanbag, a song entitled “Emergency Call 112″/”Call 911 for Emergencies”/”999 Ambulance”/”Emergency Phone Call 000”, a worksheet entitled “Emergency number”, pencil, crayons, tambourine, toy telephone, picture cards showing dangerous situations.

Activity description:

1. ‘It’s morning’ – greeting children – children and their teacher sit in a circle. eacher says the nursery rhyme and shows the correct movements. Children try to imitate them. Next, they try to say the nursery rhyme with their teacher.

It’s morning.
The sun is coming up. (raise hands up and wave fingers)
It’s morning.
It’s time to wake up! (stand up slowly)

It’s morning.
Let’s start a new day. (march in place)
Let’s work,
Let’s laugh and play! (laugh)

It’s morning.
There’s so much to do. (march in place)
Good morning friends! (wave to others)
Good morning to you!

2. “Snow White” – listening to a story by Matthew Owen – children sit comfortably in a circle and their teacher reads the story.

Snow White

Fluey, Coughy, Nervy, Dozy, Achy, Itchy
And Sniffley are sitting having breakfast
with Snow White.
Breakfast finished – now they’re all
going off to work, except Sniffley who’s
going to the chemist. He has a cold and
doesn’t want to spread his germs to his
friends at work.
Whilst they are out Snow White eats an
apple, but she forgets she’s allergic to
them. They make her feel very ill.
Luckily for Snow White, Sniffley has
come home to rest. He has some
medicine to make him feel better.
Sniffley sees that Snow White is sick and
calls an ambulance. Don’t forget, you
should only dial 999/911/112/000 when you think
someone is very ill.
Thanks to Sniffley’s quick thinking,
the paramedics are able to look after
Snow White and make her feel better.

Teacher asks children the following questions:

  • Who was eating breakfast?
  • Where did they go?
  • Where did Sniffley go?
  • What did Snow White eat?
  • What did she forget?
  • What happened next?
  • What phone numbers do we need to remember?
  • When do we need to call for help?

Teacher pays special attention to children that we only call emergency telephone numbers if someone needs help. You can’t call for fun! Every second counts when someone is in danger. An unnecessary 999/911/112/000 call could prevent someone who is truly in danger from getting help.

3. “Throw the number” – movement activity – teacher spreads out the cards with the numbers on the carpet, just like they are on the phone. Children line up in front of the cards. The first person receives a beanbag and is to “throw away” the emergency telephone number, i.e. throw the beanbag at the individual digits of the emergency number. Keep playing until all children complete the task.

4. “Emergency Phone Call” – listening to the song – children actively listen to the song – each time they hear the word “one/nine/zero” they clap their hands, when they hear the word “two/nine” they pat their knees. After listening to the song, teacher talks to children about the content of the song.

5. “Clap your hands” – movement activity – children move around the room to the rhythm of the song from the previous activity. Each time they hear the word “one/nine/zero” they clap their hands, when they hear the word “two/nine” they pat their knees.

6. “Emergency number” – worksheet – teacher shows the worksheet and explains how they should do the task (trace the line and color the right button/buttons). Next, teacher asks children to go to the tables and gives away the worksheets. During the task, he/she walks between the tables, helps children if they need it and checks the worksheets.

7. “Jump the number” – movement activity – teacher spreads the cards with the numbers on the carpet, just like they are on the phone. Children line up in front of the cards. The first person’s task is to jump to each digit in the correct sequence. Keep playing until all children complete the task.

8. “We call for help” – didactic activity – teacher talks about the correct calling for help.
Children must remember to:

  • Introduce yourself.
  • Say how old you are.
  • Give the address or say where it is.
  • Say what happened and why you need help.

Children should be advised to stay calm in this situation, answer all questions and listen carefully to the person they are talking to.

A volunteer children can practice reporting an incident/accident – preferably with a toy phone on which they can press the appropriate buttons to simulate dialing.

9. “I know what I should say” – movement activity – children move around the room to the rhythm played by a teacher on a tambourine. When teacher stops playing, children stop and teacher chooses one child who has to correctly report an imaginary accident. Keep playing until all children complete the task.

10. “When to call 999/911/122/000?” – didactic activity – teacher talks with children about when they should call 999/911/112/000. An emergency number is when someone needs help right away because of an injury or an immediate danger. For example:

  • fire
  • medical emergency – someone is unconscious, someone has trouble breathing, someone is choking
  • car accident
  • stranger danger – we see a crime happening, like a break-in, mugging, etc.

Teacher pays special attention to children that we only call emergency telephone numbers if someone needs help. You can’t call for fun! Every second counts when someone is in danger. An unnecessary 999/911/112/000 call could prevent someone who is truly in danger from getting help.

Then, teacher spreads the picture cards on the carpet so that children cannot see what is on them. Then, teacher asks children one by one to select and reveal more pictures. After revealing each picture, teacher talks to children about the situation on the picture – he/she asks children what happened, should we call the emergency number or not.

11. “Is It An Emergency?” – movement and didactic activity – children make a circle and walk around. Teacher imitates calling an emergency number – if described situation requires it, children run fast; if not, they freeze.

  • Good morning. This is Emma, I am 4 years old. I am at my house 123 X street, X city and I need help because my mother has just fainted and is lying on the floor. (run)
  • Good evening. This is Jacob. I am just in X Park on a beautiful street and I can see fire and smoke. (run)
  • Good morning. This is Tom, I am 6 years old. I’m playing outside with my older sister and she falls off her bicycle. She is conscious but her knee is bleeding a little bit. (stop)
  • Good afternoon. Here is Emily. I’m calling from the shopping mall on X Street in X city. I met a little girl who was walking around the store herself, I think she got lost. (run)
  • Good morning. This is Anna, I am 5 years old. My dog is sick. (stop)
  • Good evening. Here is Anthony. There was an accident on the road between X city and X city, they are injured, and cars are on fire. (run)

Attachments:

Picture cards for the activities entitled “Throw the number” and “Jump the number”
Worksheet entitled “Emergency number”
Picture card for the “When to call 999/911/122/000?” activity

Pages used:

  1. https://www.nwas.nhs.uk/content/uploads/2020/02/happily_ever_after_pages_dig-1.pdf – an illustrated story entitled “Snow White”
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhrul99nUDU&ab – a song entitled “Emergency Call 112”
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRz7n0xbtjY&ab – a song entitled “Call 911 for Emergencies”
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z84JKY7yLU&ab – a song entitled “999 Ambulance”
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLS1BQECR4M&ab – a song entitled “Emergency Phone Call 000”