Ready, Set, Wear It!

Friday, May 16, was wear your life jacket to work day.  The faculty at Santaquin Elementary joined others across the nation in demonstrating how easy it is to wear a life jacket.  An assembly was held later that day for the students.

That afternoon H20, an animated water-safety boat, visited Santaquin Elementary to teach water safety to the 1st and 2nd grade students.  He brought along his friends Ty Hunter and Brody Young from Utah State Parks, Boating Program to help teach the following six rules to the students 1) Always wear your life jacket!  2) Be careful near streams, canals, and fast moving water!  3) If someone falls in, and they can’t swim, reach or throw but don’t go in!  4) Never swim alone.  Always swim with a buddy in a supervised area!  5) Look before you leap!  6) Learn to swim!

The 2nd grade teachers interacted with the students as they tried to show them how to put on a life jacket the correct way and to look before they leap.  After a little fun of all the wrong ways to put on a life jacket, H20 and Ty guided them through the proper steps of wearing a life jacket.  At the end of the assembly, H20 squirted all the students with water.  H2O says, “Just remember when you go by the water this summer, to wear your life jacket!”