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Preschool, year round

Preschool: Community

November 20, 2017

Our community theme is one of my favorites because there are so many fun things we can do. I could probably spend a month on this theme exploring lots of jobs, places and community helpers.

Tons of community themed activities and ideas. Weekly plan includes books, literacy, math, science, art, sensory bins, and more! Perfect for tot school, preschool, or kindergarten.

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Here were our plans for our community theme:

Tons of community themed activities and ideas. Weekly plan includes books, literacy, math, science, art, sensory bins, and more! Perfect for tot school, preschool, or kindergarten.

 And here are the details for each activity:

Practice making inferences with "Clothesline Clues to the Jobs People Do" by Kathryn Heling. Great for a community theme in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Making Inferences:

 Madelynn loves a good guessing game, so our next book Clothesline Clues to the Jobs People Do by Kathryn Heling and Deborah Hembrook was a lot of fun! Each page gave clues in both the text and the pictures to help Madelynn guess what the person’s job was. This was an easy way to introduce making inferences in a very straight forward format.

Practice making inferences with "Whose Hands are These?" by Miranda Paul. Great for a community theme in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Making Inferences:

 Our next book, Whose Hands are These? by Miranda Paul was another fun read aloud with a similar guess the job format.  The jobs were a little bit more difficult in this one (engineers, cooks, physicians, etc.) But the text clues rhymed with the job on the following page which helped a bit.

Practice patterning with these community helper pattern cards. Use the examples for matching, then extending and creating your own patterns. Perfect for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Community Helper Book:

While reading Career Day by Anne Rockwell, Madelynn learned about many new jobs (musicians, judges, etc.)  After we read, she made her own community helper book, reading the sentences and then illustrating each one.

Respond to reading with this written response that pairs perfectly with the adorably silly story "When I Grow Up" by Al Yankovic. I love that it encourages kids to think outside the box about jobs they could have! Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

When I Grow Up Writing:

Our next book When I Grow Up by Al Yankovic, was a fun silly take on different jobs people can have. I love that it encouraged Madelynn to think outside the box about what she wants to be when she grows up instead of the typical teacher, police officer, firefighter, etc.  Of course then she decided she wanted to be a tooth fairy, but hey who am I to crush her dreams 🙂

Practice tracking print with these easy readers. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

 Tracking Print:

Our last book was Our Town from our set of Little Red Readers. Madelynn is starting to read easy level A books with patterned text. First, I read the beginning of the sentence, “Our town has a…” and paused, then she read the last word. She did a great job using picture clues to read the words.   And after the first 2 pages she was able to read the sentence by herself.

This road themed sand tray is fun for letter writing and fine motor practice with a community theme. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Community Sand Tray:

  Our first literacy activity this week was a community themed sand tray.  I filled the tray with black sand and a few yellow straw pieces to form a road. Then Madelynn used small wheel cards as a model to write letters in the sand with her finger. She also used the cut up straw pieces but decided her finger worked better.

This job sound stamping activity is perfect for letter, sound, and fine motor practice with a community theme. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Jobs Sound Stamping:

Next, for more letter practice we used our dot stampers. We started out stamping inside the letter to make a J. Then Madelynn had to find the upper and lowercase j’s in the mail carrier, stamp them and make the “J” sound each time.

This build a house activity is a fun and easy way to work on beginning sounds with a community theme. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Build a House Sound Match:

This month we are focusing on beginning sounds so we started with this build a house matching game.  I printed houses and roofs with different letters and pictures on them for each letter of the alphabet. Madelynn chose a roof, said the word, then tried to identify the beginning sound. If she got it right she matched it to the letter house. If she wasn’t sure about the sound I had her pick another picture instead.

This neighborhood name craftivity is fun for name writing, recognition, and fine motor practice with a community theme. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Community Name Craft:

For this week’s name craft we created a little neighborhood of houses.  First Madelynn cut the house and other pieces out. For the grass she made snips all the way across the top as well to create texture Then she wrote the letters in her name on each house. After she finished writing, she glued the pieces together and added the houses to the page in order to spell her name. To finish off the sky she added cotton balls for clouds.

This community journal writing activity is a great way to show learning, practice fine motor skills and learn about writing. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Community Journal Writing:

  For our journal this week Madelynn chose to draw and label her community. She drew a large building and herself.  I encouraged her to label each item so she wrote her name to label herself.

This count & color car activity is a fun way to work on number sense and fine motor skills with a community theme. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Car Count and Color:

To continue working on counting and identifying numbers, Madelynn worked on this color by code activity. Madelynn counted the dots then had to follow the directions to make each spot the correct color.  Now that we’ve been doing these activities for a few weeks we moved onto 6-10 dots in each area.

Practice patterning with these community helper pattern cards. Use the examples for matching, then extending and creating your own patterns. Perfect for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Community Helper Patterns:

This week’s math focus was on patterns so I made mini community helper cards and patterns for her to copy.  We started out with a few simple AB patterns then tried ABB, AAB, and ABC patterns as well. Having the cards handy to copy made this a pretty easy task for Madelynn and was a great way to introduce new types of patterns.

Practice patterning with these ice cream scoop cards. Use the examples for matching, then extending and creating your own patterns. Perfect for a community theme in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Ice Cream Patterns:

To  expand on the new patterns we learned with the community helper pieces, I created these ice cream scoop patterns with missing scoops for Madelynn to complete.  She pointed to and said each flavor then used fine motor tweezers to grab and place pom pom scoops on the remaining cones to complete each pattern.

Practice patterning with band aids! Perfect for a community theme in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Sticky Band Aid Patterns:

Are your kiddos band aid obsessed like mine? I swear we go through boxes of band aids faster than milk over here.  I put that band aid love to work this week with these band aid pattern pages and Madelynn loved every minute of it!

Practice patterning with these stamp pattern cards. Use the examples for matching, then extending and creating your own patterns. Perfect for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Stamp Patterns:

Our final pattern activity was building stamp patterns. For this activity I put a strip of paper labeled with a type of pattern in an envelope.  I also placed small stamps in that envelope. Madelynn opened each envelope to find the pieces she needed to make each type of pattern. The tricky part was AAB and ABB patterns because she had to figure out with shape was the correct A or B otherwise she wouldn’t have enough shapes.

We LOVE this match and mail the letters sensory bin. Perfect for working on letter matching with a community theme in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Construction Zone Sensory Bin:

In this bin: black beans, vehicles, toilet paper and paper towel tubes

We LOVE this construction sensory bin. Perfect for exploration with a community theme in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Build a City Craft:

Check out this amazing city Madelynn built with just paper! It was super easy to prep, I just cut out a bunch of rectangles and squares and glued some paper inside a shoe box lid.  Then Madelynn rolled the paper for buildings and added windows, doors and roads. I used hot glue to attach the buildings to the box lid so that they would be more stable.  After it dried, she used it to play with her toy cars and other vehicles.

This community helper matching book is a great way to learn about different jobs and the tools, vehicles, and places associated with each one. Great for building vocabulary with a community helpers theme in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Community Helper Matching:

After learning about lots of different jobs and the work that people do, I put together this book with 2 similar jobs on each page along with pictures for sorting.  I laminated and added velcro to all of the pieces so they could be used over and over again.  Then Madelynn practiced identifying the tools, vehicles, and hats that belonged to each community helper and sorted them onto the correct page.

This mailbox craft was a fun way to create our own mailbox for writing and exchanging notes at home. Great for a community theme in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Make a Mailbox Craft:

To make her own personalized mailbox Madelynn first cut out all of the template pieces from cardstock. Next she glued the pieces together, and I added a velcro dot to the mailbox door so that she could open and close it easily.  I helped her punch a hole in the side to attach the flag with a brass fastener so that it could move up and down as well.  Finally she personalized her mailbox with foam letter stickers to spell her name.

We LOVE this match and mail the letters sensory bin. Perfect for working on letter matching with a community theme in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Match and Mail Letters Sensory Bin:

In this bin: packing foam, uppercase letters, lowercase stamps, mailbox

Want all of this week’s Community activities for tot school?  You can grab them here:
On my site : Community Plans & Printables On TpT: Community Plans & Printables

Tons of community themed activities and ideas. Weekly plan includes books, literacy, math, science, art, sensory bins, and more! Perfect for tot school, preschool, or kindergarten.

Or you can grab our entire year of themes and plans:
On my site here: Preschool Bundle On TpT here: Preschool Bundle

45 weeks of engaging themed activities and ideas ready to go for your 3-4 year old. Weekly plans include reading comprehension, literacy, math, sensory play, arts & crafts and Science/social studies concepts. Everything you need for a year packed full of Preschool fun and learning.

Then check out the rest of our 45+ themes on the Preschool Curriculum Main Page.

 
 
 
by Jessica 
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Bright ideas for the little learners ~ Mrs. Plemons' Kindergarten is an education blog dedicated to fresh, engaging, and fun teaching ideas for toddlers, preschoolers, and the primary classroom.

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Comments

  1. Zabe says: March 12, 2018 at 1:25 pm

    Is there a way to just purchase the house letter sounds activity?

    Reply
    • kim says: April 3, 2018 at 3:57 am

      would like to know about the house letter sounds?

      Reply
  2. Sarah says: May 26, 2018 at 5:03 pm

    Have you made any of these printables available for purchase or download yet? Would love to get my hands on some of them as part of my summer pre-k activities to do with my own kids! I signed up for your newsletter but can’t tell if these are available anywhere on your site.

    Reply
    • Jessica says: June 4, 2018 at 1:52 pm

      You can find them here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Preschool-Community-Plans-and-Printables-3700127?aref=9ljupg33

      Reply
  3. Sarah says: December 13, 2024 at 8:38 am

    Can’t wait to do these with my classroom.

    Reply

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