Yesterday we had a homeschool field trip to Safety City for Sam!!
It was a really great class - all about road safety and how to cross the road safely! He learnt all about the seven steps of crossing the road safely. Safety City is a mini town with real buildings and roads - child sized - and the children get to practice crossing the streets while their friends ride along the roads on mini quad bikes :)
First off was the classroom session where 'Safety Mike' taught us all about the Seven Safety Steps:
Then we went outside into Safety City to try it out on 'real' sidewalks:
The children were split into two groups - some rode the quads first and the other group were the pedestrians - they got to play a mailbox game which meant they had to cross several streets to get to various mailboxes and had to be careful of the 'cars' in the streets!!:
Abigail and the other older siblings were too big to join in and so they were given the job of working the street lights and train signals:
Some children didn't abide by the signals lol - Sam was quite shocked that some children went through red lights hahaha:
The older children also had fun being pedestrians and getting in the way of the cars and generally playing about....sigh...I don't see many 'seven steps of safety' being used here:
The mini stores even have pretend tables and food inside the windows - its really cool!! And the children were given drivers licences at the end by McDonalds that allow them to go and get a free bag of fries :)
Sam and his friends playing on the train afterwards while we were dishing out all the treats they got to take home:
Safety City:
Sam had a GREAT time :
