Our Neighborhood Bulletin Board

We have been talking about places in our neighborhood. We transformed one of our bulletin boards into a neighborhood, adding one component at a time. We added class writings/projects to each area of our neighborhood (grocery store, doctor, train station, school, and post office) and read a book that related to each area. Below are close up photos of each specific area. The kids love it... they are proud to talk about the neighborhood that they made!

This is our train station. We read Freight Train by Donald Crews and sorted pictures by color onto our freight train. Then we used interactive writing to label each picture.

This is our post office, and below, a close up of the photos displayed. We read Bear At Work, by Stella Blackstone, and transformed our writing center into a post office. The students picked names out of a bucket and wrote letters to the person that they picked. At the end of the day the letters were delievered. They had a blast opening their letters and discovering who had written to them.

This is our doctor's office. We read Going to the Doctor, by Anne Civardi, and talked about our own personal experiences at the doctor's office. I wrote down quotes from the children and posted them around the doctor's office. They enjoyed sharing their experiences, probably more than they enjoyed the actual experience itself! :)

 

This is our school and playground/park area. We read Preschool Day Hooray! by LInda Leopold Strauss, and completed a shared writing on a pencil about what we do at school.