Community kindergarten

FREE Community Helpers 2-piece puzzles, perfect for toddlers and preschoolers to learn about occupations and jobs around the community.

I am happy to be linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching's Five For Friday linky party! Here's a peek at my week! Our special read-aloud this week was The Recess Queen in honor of Pink Shirt Day (Anti-Bullying). We read the book and discussed what worked and what didn't work with the students in the story. We dug in deeper and realized that the bully's name changes throughout the story. She starts off being referred to as Mean Jean, then the friendly new girl calls her Jeanie Beanie, and then…

Maps! 🗺 We use core knowledge at our school and teaching maps is part of our curriculum. This is a great time to teach positional words… | Instagram

Community Activities in Kindergarten | Creative Kindergarten

One of the first projects or themes I find fun, simple and engaging is learning about Communities (2 weeks) and making a map as the culminating activity to end the unit. (For a total of 3 weeks on Community) This week, I started by reading the class a book on maps I got on Amazon. The book was chunked over a period of 2 days to ensure understanding. Maps - Kindergarten Unit After the story, the students were shown real maps that I had saved from going on little road trips. We sat in a circle…

FREE printable Paper Hats that kids can color and wear when learning about community helpers, occupations, or when doing dramatic and pretend play. Great for preschool and kindergarten!

At the beginning of our unit. our classroom was lacking decorations and the giant black bulletin board was just beginning to have green squares put on it... A few days later, our room transformed and we added our own buildings, vehicles, traffic signals, vegetation to our community map and each child made a paper doll of themselves of what they want to be when they grow up. Enjoy these pictures! Police station, museum, doctor’s office... VONS, Disney store, Panda Express (complete with a…

Community building project-coupled with expository report on community helpers and map skills. My kinders loved this!

We had a quick week all about community helpers! We talked about most of the ones in our community and did a few activities to go with some of them! We had some nicer weather this week, so we took some activities outside! Here we made a construction zone using cones from Dollar Tree and smashed some ice using a hammer. We talked about what constructions workers do and how they have a construction zone that we need to stay out of. We have a lot of road construction by our house, so we were…