Holidays and Community Helpers

We have enjoyed many visitors in our classroom over the last two weeks.
Mr. A. taught us all about Hanukkah.

We have started our unit on community helpers and wants and needs. Over the next few weeks the children will be earning money for being bucket fillers, and for doing their job.

After the holiday break we will have a class store where they can spend their money.

We have invited many folks to come and speak to our class about their jobs and how their job impacts our community.

We have enjoyed learning from Dr. S. 

She talked to us about the tools that she uses to take care of children, and why she became a doctor.

We have been learning so much about non-fiction text.  Title, bold print, important words, facts, the index, and photographs.

Many of my friends wanted to learn about who takes those photos. Today we were so lucky to have Mrs. C. teach us all about photography.

After each of our guests leaves the children write down their new schema.  We call this building schema.

It is amazing how many details the children recall.