Week 8 - Community Helpers

After a great week of learning about fire safety last week, we decided to continue and expand our learning by studying more community helpers.  This week we focused on the police.  We read lots of books about police men and women and why they are so important to our community.  On Thursday, we even joined our homeschool friends for a field trip to the local police station!  Big K was pretty disappointed that we didn't get to go see the actual jail, but we did get to check out the garage where they keep all the police cars!

After the field trip, we went with another homeschool family to the park for a picnic lunch and some playtime.  All of a sudden we started seeing something in the sky - SKYDIVERS!  Apparently this park was located right next to an airport and skydiving school so as we played we got to see several planes take off, people jump out of them, float down, and land right on the other side of the park!  Talk about an unexpected treat for the kids! 

One think we also learned was how the police catch criminals.  We learned all about how unique our fingerprints are.  We even made our fingerprints on paper to look closely and see how Big K's and Little E's fingerprints were alike and different.
 
The kids were also really interested the learn about the role that animals play in the police force.  We learned about how police K-9 units work, and how dogs help the police.  We also learned that some police use horses in their work! 

In math this week we have been learning about place value and have been working on numbers up to 1,000.  We are getting really close to finishing the first book of our math series, Life of Fred, which is really exciting!  One day we played a game using UNO cards.  We picked three cards and then tried to make the biggest number possible as well as the smallest number possible with the three numerals.  We also worked on the less than and greater than signs with three digit numbers.  Big K breezed right through it! He's such a smart guy and math is definitely his forte!


This week was also the September edition of Tail Waggin Tutors at our local library - always a favorite with the kids!  This month they  had a ton of books by Big K's favorite author, Mo Willems for the kids to pick from. 

Happy Learning,
Momma C