November 5, 2018 - My Community Unit

My Community

This week we have started a new unit which focuses on Community.  This unit will include places, people, vehicles, and recycling.

The first unit we are talking about is places we go.  We  began the lesson by talking about the target vocabulary, which includes:

apartment, block, building, community,

firehouse/fire station, hospital, library and neighborhood.

For our activity, I made a map without buildings.  I then found real photos of buildings around the town of Franklin (library, post office, fire station, etc.) and printed them out.  We used the photos of the familiar buildings to place around the map.

 Each child had the opportunity to roll a large dice.  On the dice when clues to each building (i.e.: "This building in our community has books that we can read and borrow." - library;  "This building is where we go to learn.  It has teachers and students." - school/ECDC)

If the child was able to name the building/place, they found the picture and placed it on the map wherever they wanted.  If the child needed assistance, they were given a choice of 2 pictures, then placed it on the map.

Miss Diane

Speech-Language Pathologist