Community

This week we focused on our community and community workers. We learned that “a community is a place where many people live and work together. Community helpers are people who make communities cleaner, safer, and better” (Kalman). People in communities treat each other with respect and kindness, and help each other out. We discussed different people that work in our community, including: teachers, bakers, policemen, postal workers, and firefighters. We played a matching game where we matched the community worker to the tools they use for their job. 

We made our classroom into our own little neighborhood and the children played in different centers pretending to be community workers

At our writing table we had a post office. We made our own mailbox and wrote letters to mail. Everyone wrote a letter to a friend and told them something nice they like to do/ would like to do with their friend. At the end of the week we delivered our mail to our friends. 

In the block area we pretended to be construction workers, carefully and purposefully building various structures.

In the kitchen we pretended to be chefs and bakers. Earlier in the week we really were bakers, baking double chocolate and plain chocolate chip cookies. Later in the week we sold our cookies in our pretend bakery. We took a vote on how much our cookies should cost. We voted between 15¢, 17¢, and 25¢. Each vote was represented by a tally mark and after everyone voted we differentiated which choice had the most and which one had the least. 25¢ won! 

In dramatic play we pretended to be doctors taking care of the babies and each other with our doctor’s kit. 

Furthermore, each child shared what they would like to be when they grow up and how they would be helpful to their community.