The Santa Clarita Optimist Foundation will sponsor “Safety Town – Santa Clarita,” a five-day, 3½-hour-per-day safety education and awareness program for preschool-age children in the Santa Clarita Valley.
Two camps will be held at North Park Elementary School, from July 13 to 17 and from July 20 to 24.
During the camp, through repetitive, interactive instructional play, children will learn and practice essential safety skills they will use in their everyday lives – at home and at school.
Safety Town is a miniature city built to the scale of a small child that will be assembled within a secured playground, with traffic light, street and stop signs, striped walkways, crosswalks and streets. Children learn under the guidance of California-credentialed teachers and youth volunteers how to safely cross the street, how to obey traffic signals while walking and while driving miniature cars, complete with safety belts, and to evaluate “safe from “unsafe” situations. Videos, craft projects, songs, games and role-play reinforce the safe conduct rules the children have learned.
Children will learn and practice Fire Safety/9-1-1, Earthquake and disaster safety, Personal Safety/Stranger Danger, Water safety, Vehicle and Passenger Safety, Playground safety, Pedestrian Safety, and Bicycle Safety. On each day of the camp, representatives from community agencies will talk and give safety demonstrations to the students. Some of the agencies that will make presentations are from the local Fire Department, Sheriff’s Department, American Red Cross, Forestry Service and Smokey Bear.
Registration applications are being accepted for the July 13-17 or July 20-24, 2015 camps. Scholarships are available for families who qualify. Youth counselors, 7th – 12th grade, are needed and can earn community service hours.
For more information about Safety Town and registration forms, [click here] or contact Safety Town’s Director, Dayna Thayer at (661) 299-8942 or Dayna@santaclaritaoptimistfoundation.org.
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