We use the Experience Preschool with Mother Goose Time curriculum. This month features Community Helpers. What a better way to learn about Community Helpers than to hit the street and see workers and helpers in action? Our first field trip was the local post office. To prepare, we laced mail carrier bags and wrote post cards to our families. The post office is within walking distance to our school so we were able to take a nice walk in the freshly fallen snow. We learned about where to place our mail with postage, how it is collected, then sorted. There are so many different sizes of boxes and envelopes to choose from when mailing items. Our next field trip required a bus ride and the girls had fun pretending they were driving the bus. Our Experience Preschool Curriculum arrives in a cool bus box each month. The Leelanau Enterprise prints a weekly newspaper, brochures, letterhead, business cards and so on. As we toured the building, we learned about the many jobs that are necessary to print the newspaper and other items each week. My husband is the Creative Director and led us on the field trip. He made "I Spy" cards for us to use and the children had so much fun searching for items. The highlight of the trip was seeing the large press in operation. Sometimes the field trip comes to you. A utility worker checked our classroom for carbon monoxide because a nearby business had concerns about the air quality in their space. (We have not had any concerns or illnesses). The gentleman was a good sport about my questions about the tools he was using. He even posed for a photo! Thank you for coming along on our field trips. We hope to visit three local shops, a credit union and a hair salon yet before Christmas break.
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