![]() ![]() Here’s a critical thinking exercise that can follow discussions of what different jobs are like:įive friends planned what careers they would have when they grew up. Learning Resources Community Pocket Chart.Community Helpers/Careers Pocket Flash Cards.Here are some fun things for your classroom: What Color Is Your Parachute? For Teens is our favorite book for helping kids think seriously about their future careers.Whose Hat Is This?: A Look at Hats Workers Wear – Hard, Tall, and Shiny is a fun concept book for younger kids.This book takes that idea and makes it funny to the kids, too. If you teach younger grades, you know how amazed students are at the idea that you have a life - or even a home - outside the classroom. My Teacher Sleeps in School is another good one for thinking about teachers.Use this to talk about teachers as community helpers. It follows the protagonist of the book through all the nervousness of the first day at a new school and getting ready and worrying about whether the kids will like her - and only at the end does the reader learn that the heroine of the piece is a teacher. First Day Jitters is a terrific book for the first day of school.Officer Buckle & Gloria (Caldecott Medal Book) by Peggy Rathmann is a romp of a book which can lead to discussions of safety as well as of community helpers. ![]() Jobs People Do from Usborne looks at a lot of different career options.So often, kids only know about the basic “community helpers” group and don’t think about being a marine biologist, a sports therapist, or a video game designer, but somebody has to do it, right? This series is great for older students who are beginning to think about what they’ll be when they grow up. Cool Careers for Girls as Crime Solvers is a representative book from the Cool Careers series.Adamson is another good kids’ nonfiction writer, and this book is one in a series - she also does a day in the life of a teacher, firefighter, EMT, and more. A Day in the Life of a Doctor by Heather Adamson.Kalman is very good at clear presentations of information, and has done quite a few books on community helpers - explore a bit if you click through to check out that book. Helpers in My Community by Bobbie Kalman. ![]() Here are some books we like for this study: We think it’s a continuum, with an imaginary sliding bar that lets you mix in a little more “Your Friend the Police Officer” or a little more “You can be a police officer” till you get just the right mixture for your class. For younger students, you may focus more on the community helpers aspect, recognizing the grownups in their neighborhoods, while older students may focus more on the jobs they might choose to hold when they grow up. Community helpers and careers plans go together. ![]()
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