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.
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