Community: Jobs In Our Community

Everyday I've observed the children thinking about our Central Idea:  The work people preform helps build community as they play their imaginative games. There's been police officers in the forest, bakers at the playground, bus drivers in the forest, construction workers at the magnet tile area and so much more.

After reading Clothesline Clues to Jobs People Do I listed all the jobs they could think of and then they chose a job they wanted their puppet to do. We researched images of the clothes and uniforms people wear. Byron felt challenged to draw clothing on his puppet which prompted an impromptu drawing lesson. The children learned how to draw the lines for the sleeves and pants after deciding if they were long or short, and they learned how to draw the line for the waist.

We used the puppets to play a song game - The Farmer in the Dell, 

but we changed the words to The Worker in the City!