We spent two
awesomely fun-filled weeks learning all about the Community Helpers around town
and discussed what kinds of jobs we may want to have when we grow up…
Here is a peek
at our second week of study:
We began our second week off
with a study on the different branches of the military. We live in San Diego
and have all three branches: the Army, Navy and Marines fairly close. Some of
us have mommies and daddies or other family and neighbors that are in the
military so this was a great group to study! After reading a great Navy Book a
parent brought in, we talked about the meaning of the word “Camouflage” and
made a fun camouflage art project!
We love our Peek-A-Boo
Counting!! This week our theme was a police badge! Super fun! All of the
children love to count aloud and pay attention to the numerals so they can find
the hiding “peek-a-boo” badge! They are all such great counters because of this
activity. When we begin our study of numeral recognition, I know that they
will be able to pick it up quickly because of this activity too! It’s so fun
and educational!
Our next day of study was all
about doctors! We have a great community helper puzzle set so at Circle Time we
worked together to put a doctor puzzle together. We talked about the trick of
beginning on the corners and sides and how to find them.
For art we made a doctor's hat.
I wrote the children’s names on the head band (ex: Doctor Vivienne) and they
decorated it with dot-art paint. Afterwards, they worked their fine motor
skills and wrapped tin foil around a pre-cut cardboard circle.
I affixed it all together and
they all had a chance to be little doctors for the day!
After talking about doctors
for people, we talked about animal doctors- Veterinarians! I had all the
children bring in their own stuffed animal to fix-up. At circle time, after
showing them how, I gave them each some gauze to wrap up a boo-boo on their
animal.
For science, we took our white
gauze and red and blue tinted water. After we put some gauze in the red and blue
we mixed the waters together and made purple! We had three different colored
gauze groups!
After the gauze dried the
children got to create art with it and made some very different sculptures,
mounds and designs! Lots of creativity at work!
To help produce stronger fine
motor skills we got to “feed” a horse by scooping apples and a doggie by
picking up bones with tweezers. These are great activities from the Lakeshore Company.
The following day we talked
all about Mail Carriers! We had a lot of fun learning about mail boxes and how
the mail system works, then created our own special “giant” stamp.
I asked each child’s parent to
secretly write their children a special letter and place it in an envelope. I
told the children that the Mailman came to see us and delivered special letters
just for them! I gave them their letters and they were so excited!
After they opened their
letters, working on their fine motor skills, I read each of them their letters.
They requested to hear it twice and would have continued to have me reread
their letters if we had time. It was very special for them!
Afterwards, we made special art,
stuffed our own envelopes and decorated our envelopes. We delivered mail
back to our parents!!
Our last special Community
Helper of focus was a Painter. We talked about all the different places a
Painter can be hired to paint and had fun dressing up during circle Time!! We
then had a blast painting throughout our classroom. Every inch was theirs to
paint!!
For art I covered a big area
and then let the children pretend they were actually painting the wall. They
each made “Mini Masterpieces," and they enjoyed it a lot!! Who knew that painting
vertically could be so fun!
I hope you enjoyed our
Community Helper Unit as much as we did!! Check back for our Month of Love and Other Emotions for
February!!
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