Exploring the Rokko Island Community Helpers

 This week the Busy Bees started going further with our unit by heading out to explore the Rokko Island Community to see which community helpers they could find.

As soon as we headed out the school gate we came across the first one!

We also searched for items that community helpers might use in their daily life to help us out, such as the Japan Post box just past the Rokkoliner!

We found a couple more hard at work near the station and stopped to ask them a couple questions and learnt that they were digging up the bricks in order to add a new rest spot near the open plaza near Island Center Station.

We spotted many more as well, and the students were able to share their knowledge about what their roles and responsibilities were.

It was a fun walk, and afterwards we spent our PE time running, climbing, and balancing at the park.

During our other PE lessons this week, Preschool worked with a partner or small group as we continued our unit on rolling, gliding and sliding by using the roller boards to have some cooperative races and learn a new game called Capture the Pirate Treasure!

We also had a special visit from some of our school community members as Ms Faye and the Grade Two students paid us a visit to share stories that they wrote.

The Busy Bees began researching one community helper that they are interested in becoming an expert on by watching a short video about their chosen professional on “Can You Imagine That” and will continue working on their own posters next week to show what they have learned about that community member’s role and responsibilities as we will conclude our first unit of the year.