Community helpers

I love community helpers theme time! One thing that I love is watching the room transform from this

to this

The kids get so excited to "be" the different helpers. For a math center, we made our own baker hats and practiced our counting skills with these cute little cakes from Lakeshore Learning. They went from 1 to 10, and we put the corresponding amount of candles on each one. We also had some pizza! It was cut up into different fractions, and we talked about more, less, same; along with small fractions such as 1/2 and 1/4.

Another fun math center were these tools grid sheets. I printed these up from prekinders.com. We rolled the die, counted how many dots it landed on, and placed that number of bolts onto our grid. The first to fill up their sheet won!

For a literacy center we practiced sounding out 3-letter words. Each word had a picture to help, and then we found each letter in our letter drawers and spelled each word out with our foam letters.

For creative play, we dressed up as many different professionals, just as you saw above. One center was all about teachers. We had our pointing sticks, glasses, white boards, flashcards, and much more! The kids loved playing "boss" and giving each other assignments.

We practiced our coloring skills by making our own postal stamps. 

Book of the week: Saftey: People Who Keep Us Safe. This is from the Growing Up Safe series. Cute book about how community helpers keep us safe and what we should do if we are lost or scared.

Songs: We sang a few songs this week about different occupations.  One that we liked was this one to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell"

The doctor makes us well.

The doctor makes us well.

Hey! Ho! What do you know?

The doctor makes us well.

Continue with other verses.

The farmer sows the field . . .

The chef cooks the food . . .

The mailman brings the mail . . .

The firefighter puts out fires . . .

Policemen keep us safe . . .