Our Sunderland Community Unit kicked off with some house building with precut shapes. We talked a little about how some people live in apartments, others in condos, and some in houses. We each built our own representation of the space we live in using precut squares, triangles, circles, and rectangles. It was a great shape and color review.
We also talked a bit about the police station in Sunderland. Police officers look for fingerprints at crime scenes, so we thought it would be fun to make our own fingerprint book. It was a great, hand on, counting experience!
Teachers created a life-sized game of Sunderland. It was a bit like candy land but instead of Peppermint Forest there were locations in our game like Sunderland Town Hall, Sunderland Library, The Post Office, Sunderland Elementary School, Frontier Pizza, and Sunderland Police and Fire Station.
Lastly, we talked about the Sunderland Post Office and took a pretend trip to mail a letter. We learned how letters are set up, drew a picture to go with our letter, placed it in an envelope, and even put a stamp on it! So much fun!
We drew another round of self-portraits this week. It was interesting to see the differences from their portraits done in January! Everyone has grown so much!
I’m looking forward to another fun week as we finish up our Sunderland Community Unit.
Mrs. Reid
