Community Helpers - 8

What do they do, what to they use, what to they drive, where do they work game.

Game Printouts found HERE

Here is another game we played.

Mailman, Mailman where's the mail?
This is a fun game that my 4 and 5 yr olds love. Get an envelope and write on it to make it look like a letter. Choose one child to be the mailman..he or she must figure out which child has the "mail". The mailman must face away from the others and close his eyes while you hand off the mail. Line the children against the wall and quietly give the envelope to one child who must hide it behind his back. All of the children must keep their hands behind their back as well. The children say "mailman mailman where's the mail?" The mailman turns around ands gets three chances to pick which child is hiding the mail.

Community Helpers - 7

I have a son who is OBSESSED with community helpers.  So of course we have dress ups AND vehicles for each job.

So we talked about the vehicles and who uses them and what they do.  Luckily we have all of the toold and gear for each vehicle.

Thanks to Imaginext - the coolest boy toys EVER!!

Not pictured is the mail truck, police motorcycle and trash truck.

Love this unit!

Community Helpers - 6

I made Community Helper Puppets.

Then I let the kids act out some scenarios that might include community helpers.

You can find some to print out HERE

Easy and fun! I laminated mine and each kid got a set to take home.

Community Helpers - 5

Another FUN community helper themed snack for Toddlers...

 We made and ate MAIL!

 Frost the Graham Crackers, Cheese It Stamps and Gummy Letters for the Address!

Super delish and fun!

Every kid made 2 and ate 2.

Community Helpers - 4

I tried posting this last week 3x but Blogger was all over the place so here it is...

Community Helper Snack!

We talked about Policemen and then had their favorite snack!

 Milk and Donuts!

I used this time to teach them through the stick puppets I made and reading the books more about the community helpers!  Toddlers love Community Helpers!

Community Helpers - 3

Our library has a bunch of Rebus books.

Rebus means words for pictures.

or word puzzles.

Here is an example...

Our library has a whole section on rebus books.  I grabbed a bunch on Community Helpers.

It was fun to read to the kids and have them "read" me the parts of the book that they know. A Policeman rides a Horse. etc..

Super fun and Quiet one on one time!

Community Helpers - 2

Trash vs Recycle Game

So I had clip art - which you can find too in word of things that are recyclable and things that are trash.

We sorted them accordingly.

After that we looked at things that can be recycled. How can we tell? What does the symbol look like?

Then we looked throughout the kitchen for things with the recycle symbol.

It was fun and we still look at things today that can be recycled!

Community Helpers - 1

This month we are talking about my family's FAVORITE topic - Community Helpers. 

I am totally serious. I showed the "class" what I was talking about and as you can see...MY KID is thrilled!

Today we dressed up as Community Helpers.

 From the top.  Trash Man, Postal Worker.

Middle: Nurse, Doctor, Nurse

Bottom: Policeman and Fireman

Then we talked about what each of the helpers do.

 Because my family loves them so much, I had all of the appropriate tools that correspond with each helper.

 This was fun for everyone and it is good to role play/dress up every once in a while.