10/11/01
Question 132
Dear Preschool
Teacher,
What are good hand on activities for
safety and community helpers?
Safety & Community Helpers
Dear Safety & Community Helpers,
Good hands-on activities are role
playing the helpers with dress up clothes and equipment. There
are commercial "uniforms" available in the school
supply catalogs. Some are vests that look simple enough to
recreate.
Jackie
"Ask The Preschool Teacher Staff"
Dear Safety & Community Helpers,
I
teach 3-4-5's, and this week we are working on Builders and
Construction-Workers. Today, we built our own house using
construction paper ( all my old scraps and many colors) to do a
collage of the house we would like to live it. Then, I had the
children cut out pictures from magazines of what they thought they
would look like when they are older. It was funny...most of the
pictures were right-on-target! Tomorrow, we will build a house
by using pretzel sticks on paper. We have also made pictures of
ourselves and the tools we would need. We also did sponge
painting of our plastic tools. We built houses and buildings
with all our different types of blocks. We made a little town.
We made a house of paper and glued furniture inside.
Last week, we talked about Astronauts and
made rockets, flying saucers out of paper plates glued together and
windows glued on.
For Doctor, we make a doctor bag out of black
paper and draw and cut out our medical equipment. For Cook or
Baker, we bake bread, cut pictures of food out of magazines and glue
on paper plates, make food out of play-dough, and they tell me how Mom
makes their favorite foods and I write down what they say. These
are usually pretty funny.
We listen to a lot of stories about community
helpers, learn a lot of songs, and I try to do a lot of drawing and
gluing and cutting and painting and even glitter and other
messy-stuff.
I hope this helps a little bit.
Jan
"Ask The Preschool Teacher Staff"
Dear Safety & Community Helpers,
Everything I use for my community
helper lesson I have put on the Preschool Education page. You can find
the community helper section here.
Christa
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