Good Afternoon!

In kindergarten today, we played a bingo game that focused on community helpers. Lulu, Lucy, and Maddie each picked a board and teamed up with a younger friend to complete their board. I read a clue and children would look on their board to see if they had that community helper. Even if friends weren’t involved in the game physically, they were still using their listening ears throughout the house and would shout out the answer!

One of the clues read ‘I am a helper of the United States of America. I protect our freedom of our country. Who am I?’ We talked about the word soldier and what it meant. I showed them a picture of my step brother who is deployed in the Army. Lulu commented, “Wow. What does he do?” We had a conversation about the different things that soldiers can do to protect every day. A few other community helpers that we didn’t have any background knowledge on were janitor, lifeguard, and detective.

After playing multiple times, we talked about what it’d be like to be a dentist, astronaut, doctor, etc. We have a few dentists and astronauts on our hands .

Social Studies: K.2.1 Give examples of people who are community helpers (inside the classroom and outside the classroom) and describe how they help us.

We tied this in to large group after read, ‘Franklin’s Neighborhood’. A web was created that displayed the different community helpers that we learned about earlier in the day.

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with honey and PPC blueberries/banana.

Lunch– Cheesy scrambled egg roll-ups in whole wheat flatbread, oranges/grapes, and PPC green beans.

PM snack– Air popped popcorn with butter and PPC blueberries.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.

Have a great night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 8/30