- Work is a large part of every family’s life experience. We will celebrate each of you as a “Community Helper” becoming more familiar with what you do and the rewards that are purchased with the paychecks of hard working moms and dad. The children will be setting up their own Post Office in the Dramatic Play area so they can pretend to go to work. Be sure to fill in the “homework” sheet (ask if you didn’t get one) telling us if you are a maker or a doer, wear street clothes or uniform, and like or dislike your job. Each week we will sort, graph, count, and compare the cut-outs in each category. Don’t forget to send us a picture of you at work for class-made books and displays and something you use at work for our Community Helper Museum.
- Feb 3 – 7 – Do you make a product or provide a service? That’s the question we will ask as we sort, graph, and count our parent cut-outs this week. The children will make and send Valentines of appreciation to city officials and utility companies and police and fire departments as we recognize the services they provide to us. Don’t forget to start signing valentines for next week’s exchange.
- Feb 10 – 14 – It’s a Valentine party all week long! Parents may bring in nutritious Food Group Snacks (dairy on Monday, grain on Tuesday, fruit on Wednesday, Vegetables on Thursday, and Meat on Friday). Children will make Valentine Bags, make and send valentines to their grandparents, and bring in valentines for their friends throughout this week. We will sort, graph, count and compare the colors in a handful of valentine hearts.
- Feb 17 – 21 –The children will bake Cherry Thumbprint Cookies and make a Lincoln penny necklace as they talk about past and present presidents. Whether you like or dislike your job will be our criteria for sorting parent cut-outs this week. Curling, cutting and crimping paper strips will be lots of fun as pretend to be barbers and beauticians creating paper hairdos.
- Feb 24 – 28 – We will create a masterpiece of art with what we find in the trash can as we investigate the responsibilities of the sanitation workers and make potato prints as we talk about food service workers. Sorting of parent cut-outs this week will be based on what you wear to work and throughout the week children will use the tools of their parents as Show and Tell.
- Feb 3 – 7 – Do you make a product or provide a service? That’s the question we will ask as we sort, graph, and count our parent cut-outs this week. The children will make and send Valentines of appreciation to city officials and utility companies and police and fire departments as we recognize the services they provide to us. Don’t forget to start signing valentines for next week’s exchange.