On the last day of the Unit on "Helping hands" - Community helpers...

After six weeks, we came to an end. Sad, really! What a great unit! So much learning took place. A lot of role play, maths and social studies. The children had fun and we (both me and Myriam) also. Thanks to everybody that has helped us.

Can you try to guess our next unit of inquiry?

"I came to school, dressed as..." - part 3

We have a police officer, a doctor and 2 great teachers. If you need, we have...!

"I came to school, dressed as..." - part 2

Aren't they cute?

"I came to school, dressed as..." - my favorite community helper

After studying them all, the children came to school as their favorite community helper. From police officers, firefighters, bankers, doctors and teachers. Funny! I loved it.
It took parent's collaboration. Thank you, mum and dad!It's always nice to see the family participating and involved.

Parent's occupation show and tell - part 2

Some jobs are very obvious, aren't they not? Both kids and me loved it.
They are also acquiring skills to help them express their ideas.

Parent's occupation show and tell

Our children brought things that shows what their parents do, at work. They had to show and say something about it. Again, very interesting!

We do puppet shows...

The children were very engaged doing community helpers puppet shows. Very interesting!

Community helpers game

We played the community helpers musical chairs game: children dance around the chairs and wait for the music to stop. Then they had to say something about the profession leaving the game. "Doctors" have won!

We are also "chefs"...

On "Fantastic Friday", we cooked our snack. We made scones. Yummy! Very good...

A Chef at school...

I love to have parents over to participate in their children inquiries! This time we had a "Chef Rick"(Mikkel's dad). It was very funny and the children had lots of fun. They've learned to prepare their own food. Like proper chefs... At the end, they all got a little treat. Well, they've deserved it!!!

Do you want to teach your kids at home about community helpers....

Use this website:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/commclub/

(we are going to have a look at it at the Computer Lab)

Check this website!

Some parents ask about creative ideas to work or play with their kids, at home.
This website could help you with interesting craft ideas...

http://crafts.kaboose.com/index.html

Our Community activity ideas

Children are really engaged with this unit! During free play, they got together and build their own community with Lego. They were very proud. And deserve this note. Talking about community, we've got our flags. Shape and color were chosen by the children.
The Display board in the MPH is our class responsibility. We are getting everybody's contribution to build a school's community quilt. What is a community?

Unit: Mail carriers (community helper)

We have a real post office and everybody has his/her own mailbox. We also have real mail carriers...
We always try to incorporate the unit into the subjects: children learn mathematical concepts like sorting, by playing with letters and envelops.

Field Trip: Post Office

Last Tuesday, we went to visit the Post Office in the "Zentrum Glatt". The children showed a lot of interest and the the proof of this, is the post office role play area in our classroom...

An article about international schools... very interesting!

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/search/Result.html?siteSect=882&ty=st&sid=9687421

(Click on this link to open the article or do copy/paste)

Check this website!!

www.jollylearning.co.uk

Fun on fantastic Fridays...

Friday are always fun days for us. We move away from the normal routine and do things that sometimes, unfortunately, we don't have time to do during on the other days: arts and more free play, are just 2 examples.