Banana's Class

Hello Banana's Families, We have finally finished our Community Helper theme by learning and exploring what Construction Workers do to help us in our community. We have had so much fun learning about this occupation!  Take a look at what we have been up to! During this unit, the friends engaged in a couple of activities in the table toys/math center. They used shapes to build various structures and pictures and used our blocks to build patterns! We added cups and Popsicle sticks to the science table for the friends to engage in building activities. The friends favorite thing to construct was bridges and enjoyed testing their cars across the bridges that they built. Our dramatic play center was transformed into a construction site! We added various materials to the center for the children to engage in building structures, remodeling the doll house, drawing designs and blueprints and so much more! We have been really busy in our art center throughout this unit! The friends used build

 Hello Banana's Families, We have had so much over the last couple of weeks learning about Firefighters and Police Officers and how they help us in our communities! Take a look at what we have been up to! Our dramatic play center was converted into a Fire Station where the friends let their imaginations soar in their play as firefighters. They worked with their peers to help their community stay safe. The friends put out many house fires, building fires, and even saved some cats from trees :) They also learned the importance of "Stop, Drop, and Roll!"   In the sensory table, the friends engaged in play by spraying flames with water to help put out a fire. The friends continued to practice number identification as every flame had a number written on it. They identified each number as they were putting out the fire.   In the literacy center, the friends engaged in a firefighter hat letter matching activity. In this activity our friends matched the upper case ("big"