Welcome to a new week full of Community
Helpers! We will be learning about jobs around town and exploring the idea of
what we might want to do when we grow up.
To start the week off right, we made pudding to
celebrate our new letter of the week, the letter P!
Delicious!
We learned about Police Officers to begin our
week. After talking about them and reading books about their jobs, I asked my
munchkins what a police officers job is to check their comprehension. This is
what they said:
P is for Penguin!! We just love share time!
Police Officers help keep us safe and so do
streetlights. We practiced following directions while completing art today. We
used pompoms to fill in paint on the top, middle and bottom with the correct
color.
Completing 10-12 piece puzzles is a great way
to develop logic, problem solving skills, patience, fine motor skills, spatial
awareness, and much more. We worked on completing
Community Helper themed puzzles.
In the afternoon we developed a stronger
understanding of a community and what types of businesses and helpers are found
around town. My munchkins picked out where they live in our town and we added
community helpers and other businesses.
Afterward, we had fun dressing up as different
community helpers.
On Wednesday we focused on Firefighters! For
art we painted a fire, then colored a fire truck and added it to the fire to
“put out our fire.”
Look at our wonderful line!! Here we are, on
our way up to the Science Deck!
Up on the Science Deck we used a real
stethoscope, pretending to be a doctor, and listened to our heartbeat!
To help us recognize our letter of the week we
played Letter Swat! We reviewed the names and sounds of all the letters on the
board as they were written, then we each took turns finding the letter P on our
own!
We learned about the job of a Doctor today so
we made our very own Doctor’s Kits! We peeled Band-Aids on our own, glued down
tongue depressors, etc. then traced a red cross to add to the front of the kit.
In the afternoon we played a firefighter game
and looked for a fire at the correctly colored Fire Station.
On Friday we made a “P”udding “P”ie to celebrate
the end of our P week.
Yummo!
On Friday we learned about Mail Carriers. I
asked my students what they might get in the mail and this is what my munchkins
said:
Who doesn’t love mail? We made pictures and
decorated envelopes and will be using mail carriers to deliver mail to
ourselves!! My munchkins can’t wait to get our letters in the mail!!
Check out next week when we explore more
community helpers!
