Community Workers Continued

We had two more visitors this week.  Nurse Jeremy Gianzero (Jaxens' dad) and our own custodian, Mr.Sam at McQueen!  The children had so much fun and love when we have visitors!

It was fun dressing up as nurses and we even listened to our heart beat!

Mr. Sam showed us how he keeps McQueen and our classroom so clean!

We ended our unit with Fire Safety as we toured our school to find fire alarms, extinguishers and emergency exits.  We had our own fire drill and the children decided to count all the sprinklers in the center!  A great math lesson!

Thursdays class had fun learning about our town workers too as they dressed up and learned about safety.

I feel very safe in class!

  We were happy to get a playtime outside on an overcast day and a somewhat lower temp!

     Fun with friends!

  And look what we saw in our parking lot!  I love when educational moments happen that I didn't plan!

   

Community Workers!

We began our Community Workers unit last week until our week was cut short with my flu and aching jaw.  Now.....a root canal coming! Ugh.      We had the pleasure of having Andrew's dad, Officer Mike Holyoak and his co-worker, Officer Dani visit our class.   The children were so excited!

We started on Monday with Mail Carriers.  They wrote many "letters" and even licked the envelopes (I"m surprised : ) We have our own class mailbox for our special mail.

                                             Everyone journaled (wrote) a note to a family member.

                    We were astronauts, construction workers and firefighters!  We talked about safety at
                          home and how many community workers keep us safe.

Officer Mike Holyoak ( Andrew's dad) and Officer Dani.  We talked about safety and how officers keep us safe.  Officer Mike showed us things he wears on his uniform that keep  him safe.  Officer Dani told us even women can be officers!
We looked at the Officer's badge and it is heavy to wear!

 
Most fun was looking at the Police Car. We all got to sit in
side the car while the lights were flashing!

             There even is a computer in the car! (We were surprised by this!)

Officer Mike and Andrew, his son.

What a fun morning we had.  Can you tell it was  sunny while we took the picture? 

Officer Dani shook our hands and we went inside to say goodbye to the officers.  They put the sirens on for us and waved goodbye until next time~

 
It was exciting that just as the Police car arrived the
mail was being picked up so we got to see the mail truck too!



We all signed a card for the Officers thanking them for coming. We painted a police car and colored a police officer for them, too!


Now we know how to be safe!

1.  Police officers help us.
2.  If someone knocks on your door at home, let an adult
answer it.
3.  In case you cannot get an adults help, know to call 9-1-1.
4.  Stay away from pools if there is no adult.
5.  If you are lost in a store , find a store worker or police
officer to help.  Always stay with mom or dad!
6. Always wear a helmet when you are on a bike, or scooter or skating!
7.  Always wear your seat belt in the car.

A trip back to the 70's!

Being my birthday week, I thought it would be fun for the children to play with the toys I played with when I was younger.  So we had etch-a-sketch, Potato Head, Candy land, trolls, Tinkertoys, Dr. Suess books, slinkys, snap together toys, matchbox cars (those were my brothers),  and my favorite Paint!

Age 3

We had a great week and it was fun to watch the kids.  I heard "Miss Kathi, I don't like this iPad-it doesn't have any games!" (etch-a-sketch)  LOL

Thursdays class

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My favorite as a kid - OREOs!

We've been working on our Zoo Phonic letters and sounds!

The MWF class is making good choices.  A short term goal is to be caught making a good choice, long term, the children have to get 5 more good choices to get a prize.  They are all doing great!

As some of our art and crafts look simple, we are working on handwriting.  On this project we wrote up and down to make the teeth, circle to make the nose and then wrote our letter.  All of our projects are skill based.  Some are even learning how to hold markers, crayons, scissors and glue sticks!

I love to see this!  Even though these are tangagrams (shapes) and blocks, the children use them to make letters they are learning!

Next week:  Community Workers!