It's Not Candyland, It's Sunderland!

For the past 2 weeks, we've been learning all about different places in our community -- our school, the post office, the police & fire department, the public library, the Millstone Market and the Frosty.  Yesterday, the afternoon class created their own Sunderland game. (Think Candyland with familiar locations) Here is a photo of a few boys enjoying this game.

We have also been very busy in our classroom post office. The children really enjoy writing letters, putting them in the big blue mailboxes and then sorting them into the individual mailboxes.  We have also created mail carrier hats, mail bags and some mail trucks and mail signs for our block area.

Putting mail into the big blue mailbox

Sorting mail into a friend's mailbox

A Trip to the Doctors' Office

As part of our study of ways to stay healthy, we have begun talking about the work of doctors.  Our kitchen area has become a doctors' office and there are many busy doctors helping care for the baby dolls. Today the children in both the morning and afternoon groups were caring for the dolls in many ways:

• using the scale to weigh the babies
• listening to the dolls' hearts with the stethoscopes
• administering shots
• checking the dolls' eyes and ears
• taking notes
• applying many, many band-aids
• passing out stickers at the end of each visit.

Check out these great photos.

Busy caring for the dolls in the morning.

Busy caring for each other in the afternoon.