The kiddos just love it when we set up our dramatic play centre as a walk-in clinic! They quickly assume the roles of doctor, nurse, technician, receptionist and patient, then we hear all sorts of rich oral language and see a lot of writing! No wonder it's a teacher favourite too!
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Here we are - locked up in the Safety Village's police station! Our SK's enjoyed the morning learning about safety and exploring the village. I was so proud that ALL of my SK's knew their address and phone number! The police officer was impressed with their knowledge on stranger danger, 911, traffic safety rules, and safety signs and warnings. We've been working so hard learning about all this and more, but having a real police officer tell them about it too really impresses the kids with how important it all is. Please continue to reinforce all of these concepts at home as well and practice phone numbers and addresses (they may know them now, but without consistent reinforcement they are likely to forget). You can look at the site's picture gallery for many more pictures! We're learning how to represent numbers in different ways: numerals, number words, tally marks, ten frames, and pictures. Mrs. Nilo came up with a couple of very engaging activities for our light table. In the one pictured below, the child is placing the correct number of objects on top of the number words, then using the sticks as tally marks to represent the numbers that way! Mrs. Nilo has since changed up the materials to keep the activity fresh and interesting. I just can't believe all of the cool things she can find at the dollar store!
We're starting to read and learn about fairytales this week and I began with one of my own daughters' favourites (it's been a couple of decades since I last read it to them!) as well as mine - "The Three Billy Goats Gruff". Using the materials in the literature kit along with the book I acted out the tale as I read it. (An interesting side note: No one knew what a 'meadow' was!) Anyway, they loved the story too. I allowed them to use the literature kit materials at play time and quite a few kids used them to retell the story. They then used a large block for the troll's bridge and took on the roles themselves, including action and dialogue. After a while, it was just a small group left but they expanded the props on their own, using a large piece of green duplo for the meadow and then adding a dollhouse for the goats' home. I heard so much vocabulary and dialogue from the story: "Trip trap trip trap!"; "Do you want to go eat the grass in the meadow?"; "The troll is under the bridge."; "I'll butt you with my strong horns and big 'hoofs'!" Sejal had left the group early on, but went and built her own setting for her own version of the story. Eventually, most of the kids moved on to other things but a group expanded on Sejal's setting to make a very elaborate story set, which they used for a much longer time.
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About Mrs. C.Mrs. Cuckovic, or "Mrs. C." as she's called, is a retired educator who spent a long and varied career with the Greater Essex County District School Board in Windsor, Ontario. Archives
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