Community Helpers

The first two weeks of October we learned about our community helpers.  We learned the letters Hh, Oo, the number 3, the color orange and the shape rectangle during those two weeks.  We started off our community helpers unit by learning about the trash man!  What made it even better during that day, was that the school's trash man stopped by to pick up our trash and of course we had to stop what we were doing and go out to watch him!  We talked about how he helps clean up our town and how it's important to always throw our trash away.  We had 'trash' olympics that day for our circle time.   We also made a Handy trashman Helper that day that was made out of trash (sorry no pictures). 


The next community helper we learned about was a police officer.  We learned a new game, Red light, Green light, which taught us what those colors mean when we see them while driving.  We made a police car out of rectangles and drew our own police officer.  We also made a stop light made of corn syrup.  You mix corn syrup and food coloring together.  It was VERY sticky, but they enjoyed the texture!  Here is a picture of our corn syrup stop light. We had to add glitter to make it sparkly!

The next community helper (we learned a total of 4) we leanred about was a firefighter!   We talked about the job the firefighter has.  Since it was also fire safety week, we learned about how to be safe when it comes to matches, to stop, drop and roll and also how to dial 911 for an emergency.  For our large group activity, we went outside (bad day for this activity because of course it was the coldest day of the week, but we still had fun) and drew 'fire' on the sidewalk with sidewalk chalk.  We talked about what firefighters do to put out a fire.  They use WATER! That is exactly what we did! We took spray bottles and sprayed out our fire!  When we came back inside we made a firetruck out of rectangles and drew our own firefighter.

The last community helper we learned about was a doctor.  We discussed how doctors make us feel better and how they aren't scary.  What a better way to help show doctors are good people, is to dress up and be a doctor!  I went out and bought doctor masks, rubber gloves, colorful bandages, tape and some pre-wrap.  We played doctor with each other.  Here are some pictures of the fun we had! (The other person pictured with the preschooler is my para Miss Reed!  She is an amazing lady!)