Do You Love Your Job?

Keri gets to teach preschool this week and we are talking about different jobs people have in our community.  Today we got funky with hair as we discussed what hairdressers do. We compared our hair and talked about our salon experiences. 

We read What I Like About Me! by Allia Zobel-Nolan. Then we talked about if we don't like what God blessed us with, we can go to the hairdresser so they can try to change it. Okay, not really. We talked about how we all have different hair and can style it different ways.

We introduced that a blow dryer is one of the tools used by hairdressers and other objects they may use, i.e., hairspray, comb, ribbon for bows, curlers.  Then we experimented with the blow dryer and they got to pick something to blast across the table with the blow dryer. We discussed light, heavy, soft, forceful, hot, warm, and loud.

 Then we got to our art project. We discussed long, short, curly, and straight hair. They drew faces on paper plates and choose the best 'do' for their hair, using colorful strips of construction paper.  Keri taught them how to wrap strips around their pencils to get it curled (great for fine motor) and a few attempted it.

For snack, we introduced what office workers might do. We got out our computer keyboards and found the letter V, the letter at the beginning of their names, and a few others, and covered them with the carrot coins and raisins. Then they gobbled them up.

At sharing time, we shared our office supply finds with our friends and talked about what each one is for and experimented with using it. They loved that, especially the hole punch.

We discussed that office workers have a lot of paperwork they need to keep neat. We categorized pictures of orange, blue, and pink items into color labeled folders. Then counted how many of each color we had.

We learned that some office workers go to work in tall buildings and they may have to take the elevator. We did dramatic play of going to work, getting in the elevator, pushing the buttons and counting as we went to the desired floor. For number recognition and counting practice Keri did include a 13th floor. She's teaching math here, not superstition! 

It was a fun and hectic morning and she is looking forward to Thursday when she covers waiters and bankers.  Never a dull moment on preschool days!