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We finished our Science curriculum last week so we are onto the next topic, for the next few months we will be doing Community Helpers curriculum by Abeka.
I am doing this curriculum with my 7, 5 and 3 year old. This week we did police officers.
I used several different resources:
My 3 kids made a Community Workers folder to store all of their work in for this lesson along with all the up and coming Community Workers we will be learning about.
If you would like to create a Community Workers folder or your own using this front folder page you can print it off at on my shared folder. Please note that I made this page myself so please use it for learning purposes only.
We also did a cut and paste police offer craft which we added to our folder:
Plus we did a yummy activity. I taught my kids traffic signals as well, including green - go, yellow - slow down and red - stop.
Ingredients:
Chocolate graham crackers
icing / topping gel
Red, yellow, green Skittles (you can use M & M's also)
Ingredients:
Chocolate graham crackers
icing / topping gel
Red, yellow, green Skittles (you can use M & M's also)
The kids made their own traffic light snack, using the gel topping which comes in a tube (used for cake / cupcake topping designs) I had them squeeze out a small dot on their graham crackers and them place the Skittles on the gel - making their own traffic lights! My kids loved this activity and snack!
Books we used for this lesson:
Where Are You?
The Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers
Don't Talk to Strangers
In My Neighborhood Police Officers
What's Inside a Police a Car?
People in the Community Police Officers
Books we used for this lesson:
Where Are You?
The Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers
Don't Talk to Strangers
In My Neighborhood Police Officers
What's Inside a Police a Car?
People in the Community Police Officers
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ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting! Have a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteI love the policeman and graham cracker! Your school looks lively and educational. God bless you and thanks for hosting!
ReplyDeleteJDaniel would love this unit. The snack would be a hit.
ReplyDeleteMy husband is an officer so this is a post near and dear to my heart. I love the cute, yet yummy idea for teaching about traffic lights!
ReplyDeleteCute idea with the traffic light snacks.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea. My kids would love this unit as well.
ReplyDeleteTesa @ 2 Wired 2 Tired
I love that traffic light snack! So fun and creative!
ReplyDeleteCute ideas!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
ReplyDeleteI love this post, thanks for sharing. One of my daycare kids' moms teaches her kid that when he is bad, the police man is going to come and take him to jail. My daughter has heard this and it kills me. I keep trying to explain that the police are good people who save you. And if she is ever in danger or lost she can ask the police for help. Ugh, anyway, thanks for this post!
ReplyDeleteOh those are such cute learning tools! I love it! My kids would love the stop light snack too. Very cute.
ReplyDeleteI like the police officer paper doll, such a great idea!
ReplyDeleteSofia
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Nicole,
ReplyDeleteI take a low bow for what you do with your kids at home and with your schooling techniques!
Always so entertaining.
Always knowledge induced.
It's a ton of work and patience and love for what you do.
what a fun unit!!!
ReplyDeleteOh Hayley would love this unit so much! Great idea!
ReplyDeleteThe edible traffic signals are cute. My hubby used to be a traffic line worker for the city and he built intersections that included new traffic signals. Thanks for sharing this fun idea!
ReplyDeleteI did not have a link however it is nice to have found other homeschoolers
ReplyDeleteSuper cute unit! So many fun ideas!
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking up to TGIF! have a great Easter =)
Beth