Everyday they had a different safety lesson. They learned about gun safety, fire safety, stranger danger, water safety, electrical safety and more. Each day they had 4 stations they rotated through and one was always driving the cars in the village. This was of course the favorite part for Ammon!!
They got a meet K9 dogs and go through Sheriff and Police cars, check out an ambulance and fire truck.
One day when we went to pick him up the Aircare helicopter was at the school and his group was about to go in it. Corrine snapped a quick picture of his group. Then after picking him up we went over to it and all the kids got to go through the helicopter.
They had a drop off and pick up procedure that you had to follow. When you dropped them off you drove up to the 1st open number spot (1-5) and a volunteer, or fire fighter and police officer would open the door and help them out. When the cars in front of you left you could go. When we picked him up we had to have our yellow sign with his name on it in the window. A lady had a blow horn and she would call out his name and a number, which was the number I was going to pull up to and he'd be there waiting for me. The lady couldn't for the life of her get his name right. The 2nd day he wasn't at the number they called out for him. I asked him why and he told me she didn't call my name. From then on if her heard "Emon" he would line up. (Fortunately his teachers said his name correctly.)
On the last day we got to go with him and see all the things they did. We could tell that he really enjoyed his time there.
On one of the first days of the camp we were driving home after picking him up and I switched lanes close to a light. Ammon told me that I shouldn't have done it, and if he had done it in the village he'd have to sit out and watch. He said it because at the village they can't go around another car even if they are going slow. He also told me that if you hit another "car" you had to sit out. One the last day I asked him if he ever had to sit out and he proudly said NO.
The village is so fun and has fully functioning lights and train tracks with crossing arm.
In one of the rotations they had a play time. They had seat belts, phones, firefighter clothes and some other safety type toys. The kids I guess had a great time trapping the teachers with the seat belts. Ammon showed his siblings how they did it!!
Another rotation they did art work, and singing. One of the songs was "Match" set to the tune of Bingo. Ammon really liked the songs and knew all the words. The started to sing a song for us but the teachers were singing the wrong words. Ammon noticed right away and told the teachers and got all the kids singing the correct words and tune!
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