Our Community (13th September)

Our Community

Maple Group (Thursday 13th September)

We began group time today with a story. It was Whose hat is this?

This story got the children thinking about different jobs in the community.

The story explored the following workers: construction, firefighter, chef,

police officer, baseball player, astronaut and beekeeper.

During this story the children were shown different hats and the children

used their thinking skills to decide who the hat belonged to.

All of the children showed great knowledge and communicating skills during

this time as they decided who owned the hat.

After the story all of the children got to choose a hat they would like to design.

We had a nurse, doctor, chef, farmer, firefighter, pilot, mail carrier, construction

worker, policeman and train driver to choose from.

The children showed great creativity decorating and designing their hat.

During this time the children were communicating to each other about

their colouring and chosen hat.

Aegon “I am going to be a chef”.

Elise “Are you sick teacher emma?  I am a nurse”.

Each child was so proud of the hat when it was competed.

At the end of the activity we played a game which was similar to our story.

A child stood up and showed everyone their hat. The rest of the children

had to use their knowledge of jobs in the community to decide what job

that hat belongs to.

Emma-Firefighter

Elise-Nurse

Ellen-Nurse

Mikayla-Mail Carrier

Luigi-Farmer

Aegon-Chef

The children showed great enthusiasm during this activity and were very focused

on learning about different jobs in their community.

Our Community (12 September)

Our Community

Maple Group (Wednesday 12th September)

Today Maple Group started to explore the concept of “community”.

Firstly taking community as the area where we live, the children and I

brainstormed some things they see in their community. Maple group showed

great knowledge as they shared their ideas.

Aegon “fire station”

Elise “playground”

Emma “school”

Gwendolyn “food store”

We then spoke about who might work at some of these places.

Firefighter = Fire station

Teacher = Day care

Bus driver = Bus

Policeman = Police station

After this we played a little game. There was some items set up on the floor.

books, food,

paint brushes,

trains, animals,

hair brush, mail,

fire hat, construction tools

The children all showed patience as they waited for their turn to choose

a card from the box.All of the children then got a turn to decide what item

on the floor matched with the card.

Each child got a chance to pick a card out of the box.

Then all the children used their knowledge and thinking skills to decide where

the card should go. Some of the children needed a little help as they were unsure.

The children are learning to communication with one another  as they worked

together to decide on some answers.

The children really enjoyed deciding where the card might go, matching the

fire station to the fire fighter hat and the animals to the farmer. They matched

the paint brushes to the artist, the books to the library, the tools to the

construction worker, the police uniform to the police man.

All of these are jobs in our community which the children are broadening

their knowledge on during this unit of inquiry.