Community Helpers Week One

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!