Community Helpers Week

Home-preschooling has been quite an adventure for me. The longer we do it the more I learn and grow in how to teach them in ways they will be able to take away more than just academics. I want them to value the world around them and learn about the things that make it all up. This week our theme is community helpers. Our focus today was on Police officers and firefighters. We have done a fire safety week before, but it never hurts to review such an important topic and I was surprised how much the kids has forgotten in a years time.

First off in circle time I used a power point slide show to talk about a few different community helpers and the different tools they might use. The kids liked being able to see pictures to relate what we were talking about. Next we talked about what a community was. Community: a group of people who live or work near each other.

I wanted to also tie in a scripture for the lesson and so we used Colossians 3:23- And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men.

We packed our morning full of activities:

We colored police hats and badges and practiced fingerprinting just like a real police officer might

Our sight work worksheet (this one is k's and I am impressed at our almost 3 year old and how much he has accomplished)

L's paper, she did great as always

Our fire craft: I used white paper to cut the flame shape and the kids glued on red, yellow, and orange paper and tissue paper. I asked each child one thing they learned about fire and then wrote what they said on the flames

Letter of the week: U- Traced over the highlighted U's uppercase and lowecase

Science for the day was about how fire needs oxygen to burn. What happens when a jar is placed over the candle??

Stay tuned for the rest of our preschool activities this week. We'll be doing more community helpers and also some St. Patrick's day fun.