Adventures at Safety Town | Virtual Field Trip | KidVision Pre- K

Hi KidVision kids, we're here today at Safety Town to learn about bike safety. Come on, let's go! Safety Town is a small pretend town in the middle of a park with kid-sized buildings, roads, street signs, and even a railroad crossing. It's the perfect place to practice and learn about bike safety and pedestrian safety. When you're teaching kids about bike safety, what kind of things do you teach them about? So we teach the kids how to stop at a stop sign, where to stop, different hand signals when they get to the stop sign, such as left, right, and stop. We also teach them if there's pedestrians going through the crosswalk, you have to yield to them and stop so that they can get across the road safely. That's terrific! There are lots of things to learn about pedestrian and bike safety. We want to be visible. Does anybody know what that means? No? That means we want to wear bright clothes like this t-shirt so that people see us when we're riding bikes. So when I'm riding down the road, I always wear my bright colored t-shirts or this bright colored shirt with reflectives on it so that people see me when I'm riding bikes. It makes it a lot safer for me to ride my bikes. And of course, it's important to wear a bike helmet. This is my helmet. This is my bike riding helmet. When you put your helmet on, you want to make sure that the helmet lines up to the middle of your forehead here. Easy way to remember is if you look up, if you can see your helmet, it's good. Can you see your helmet? I saw you looking up. Because that's where it protects your entire head. So if you drop it down a little bit, go ahead and tilt yours forward just a little bit. Keep going. Keep going. You should be able to look up. Can you see your helmet when you look up? Alright, push it forward a little bit more. Just keep pushing it forward. And as soon as you have it in the spot that it needs to be, you just buckle up right there. It's important that we buckle up. Okay, this is what keeps... Exactly, the helmet won't fall off if we buckle up. How do I look? Great! Yes! Why do we wear a helmet? Well, helmets protect our head in case that we happen to fall off of our bikes. I'm a great rider, but I never want to fall off my bike. And there are several obstacles in the road that can cause me to fall. So if I do fall, I want to protect my head. It's also important to let cars and other cyclists know when you're planning to turn and when you're going to stop. Now there are hand signals that you use when you ride a bike. Does everybody know which direction right is? Which side is that? Penny, is that the right? Yes. Yeah, so if we're facing this way, which side is the right side? That side! That's exactly what you do when you want to turn right on your bicycle. You point this way. To the right. Exactly. What do you think we do when we want to go left? We point this way. That's how we go left. Everybody point this way? Yes, that's left. Does anybody know what we do when we want to stop? Oh, that's a tough one, right? Stopping is showing your palm to the back. Can everybody do this? That means stop. I'm going to stop. That's when you tell the riders or the cars behind you that you're going to be slowing down to stop. This is the safe way to do it. Okay, so we have right, we have left, and we have stop. There we go, good job! It's important to pay attention to traffic signs. Traffic signs tell us what rules we must follow when we're on the road. I'm going to show you a traffic sign. Let me know what you think it is. Stop! Oh yes, you guys all know that. Stop! Okay, it is the big red sign that we see everywhere. We see it right here behind us. It's all over the park here. What do we do when we see this sign? Stop! We stop, right? Easy. What's important to do when we stop? Yeah, we stop. What else should we do? Look both ways. Think about it. What was that, Ms. Penny? Look both ways. We have to stop, and then we want to look both ways. We want to look left and right to make sure that nothing is coming, and then we can go. What's this one? Does anybody know what this one is? It has two R's. Railroad. Okay, railroad. Does anybody know what that word means? Or what those words mean? It's the train. So we look down there, we can see the two R's for railroad. That means a train is coming. The light will go red, and then we'll have an arm that comes down, and it'll flash lights. It tells you to stop. Don't go past it. When it goes all the way back up, that means you can go through. But this is railroad. I'm going to show you another one. You know what this is? Look both ways. No. What is it? Don't run. No. Very close. This is a pedestrian cross sign. Okay, so we may see this sign right here. So this is a crosswalk. Oh, I see. Yeah, these two lines right here. So you can walk. Can everybody see these lines? Yeah. Okay, so when somebody's waiting here, and we're riding our bikes, we want to stop for them and allow them to cross. When you see this sign, that means people can cross on that portion of the road. We have one more uncommon one. And this is, does anybody know this word? Yield. Very good. This is a yield sign. Does anybody know what this sign means? Miss Penny, you want to take a guess? Yes, it means that you use your manners and you let someone else go before you go. Yeah. It is right there. Yes, this is the yield sign. This means you slow down and you use your manners, and we call this a roundabout. And it just means that you allow people to use it before you use it. So you use your manners, just like Miss Penny said, and you allow everybody to use it safely. This is the yield sign. We slow down and we yield to traffic or pedestrians, so that way they can cross the crosswalk or use the roadways. Traffic lights. Yes, traffic lights. These are my favorite, right? They're the most important thing on the road. You know what they mean? All right, we're going to start with one. Does anybody know what this one means? It's a red light. Red light means stop, just like what else? What else means stop? What other thing is red that we know? The stop sign, right? It's the same thing. The red light means stop. What is the yellow? Slow down. The yellow means slow down. The green means go. Very good. Now, what do we do when the light goes from red to green? Even though it says to go, what should we always do? Look both ways. All the time. It's very important that we look both ways before we go. Riding bikes is fun, and it's also great exercise. But it's important to stay safe, wear a helmet, pay attention to street signs, and follow the rules of the road. Bye!