Community Helpers: What People Do?

Happy Earth Day!!!! Today, Margie read books about community helpers. Next week I will share some of these books with my group on Monday but I'm going to try to bring in some props or blow-up color pictures for the kids to guess or act out what community helpers do. I may even try to engage them in talking about what they may want to be when they grow up. Too bad I don't know anyone but I wish I could have a guess speaker come and entertain the kids with a story. Oh well....maybe some other time. We found stories about truck drivers, teachers, zookeepers, garbage man, police officers, baker, apple farmer, firefighter, and more.

This week's selection:

1. *Drive by Nathan Clement
2. *Sam Who Never Forgets by Eve Rice
3. *Whose Shoes? a shoe for every job by Stepn R. Swinbourne (Kids and parents liked it.)
4. What Teachers Can't Do? by Douglas Wood
5. *Guess Who? by Margaret Miller E 331.7 M
6. Guess Who? by Marcia Leonard
7. Zookeeper Sue: A Lift-the-flap book by Chris Demarest
8. Officer Buckle and Gloria bv Peggy Rathman
9. Career Day by Anne Rockwell
10. Firefighters! by Pat Hubbell
11. Appe Farmer Annie by Monica Wellington
12. Mr. Cookie Baker by Monica Wellington
13. Firefighter Frank by Monica Wellington
14. Trashy Town by Andrea Zimmerman (garbage man)
15. Dig! by Andrea Zimmerman (construction worker)

*Books she read to the kids today.

I Love Daddy!

That's my dad and my son, Hayden.

• Daddy is a Doodlebug by Bruce Degan
• Night Shift Daddy by Eileen Spinelli
• My Pop Pop & Me by Irene Smalls
• Building with Dad by Carol Nevius
• Mister Seahorse by Eric Carle

Other suggestions:

• Daddy Makes the Best Spaghetti by Anne G. Hines
• Me and My Dad by Alison Ritchie
• My Dad by Anthony Browne
• Jafta's Father by Hugh Lewin
• Kevin and His Dad by Irene Smalls
• Froggy's Day with Dad by Jonathan London
• Father and Son by Denize Lauture