The Kindergarten community helpers 2

Doctors and teachers. They all have their own unique style...

The Kindergarten community helpers

Our community helpers are (from left to right): police officer, taxi driver, builder and astronaut.

Early Years Student led-conference

Our first student led-conference was very successful! Most of the parents attended and the children felt tremendously proud by leading their parents around school and by showing them everything. We will be doing more of this throughout the year!

Show and tell 3

Show and tell 2

Very shy kids, don't you think?

Show and tell 1

Children at their first show and tell: parent's occupation. The task was to explain, more or less, one of their parent's job as a (or not), community helper. It went quite well, for the first time!

More about the unit...

Community Helpers finger puppet theater!
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls...we kindly present you...

The Traffic Police visit

The Traffic Police came for a visit.
The children now know how to cross the road in safety!

Kids at Role Play

Our different role play stations and children playing doctors and firefighters. This unit was very successful in terms of role playing. I've enjoyed observing the kids learning about life situations!

Children Playing = Learning

Children are still engaged in more language games. Reading words, matching pictures and sight words bingo. Fun!

Role Play and Language

Playing in the Post office and the children playing some of the language games during our shared reading time.

In the Post Office

We went to the post office in Glattzentrum, to send the letters to the mothers where we told them that on our last unit day, we need to come dressed up as our favourite community helper.

Community helpers unit

One of our lines of inquiry is we all living in a community and having roles and responsibilities towards it. Vincezo, came to our classroom to explain to us what he exactly does in our school community. We talked about our own classroom essential agreements and we got to know a bit more our neighborhood (we've done a community map).
We became more general now, by inquiring who really helps us in our community. The traffic Instructor is one. The children have done their own lollipop signs and we went out to practicing crossing the road. It was fun!

Our first unit of inquiry: Helping Hands (Community Helpers). It's all about doctors, police officers, dentists, firefighters and teachers. We've started off by pre-assessing the children's knowledge about this theme (hands wreath). Then we've made a human graph (what do I want to be when I grow graph). After this, the role play took place. They love playing doctors!

Our first weeks of school went on like this...

On the first weeks of school, our children had time to play and talk, and get acquainted and talk, and get familiar with new rules and talk... It was nice to see them talking all the time! They missed each other... Our new members were well welcome and they all already feel very settled in.

A new school year...

Hello everybody!

I am so glad to start a new school year, with new smiling faces. This is the group of children whom I'll be working, learning and having fun with this year!
I am sure together we'll make this a great experience for everyone!
I hope you, parents, enjoy this space and participate vividly on it. It's my present for all of you...