Classroom Theme: Community Helpers
Book List
Title of Book: Whose Hat Is This? A Story Summary: Put on your thinking cap and guess whose hat is whose
Look at Hats Workers Wear - Hard,
Tall, and Shiny (Whose Is It?:
Community Workers)
Author: Sharon Katz Cooper
Illustrator: Amy Bailey Muehlenhardt Cooper provides a great introduction to some important jobs in the commun
Year: 2006
Publisher: Picture Window Books
Title of Book: Whose Hands Are
These? A Community Helper
Guessing Book
Author: Miranda Paul
Illustrator: Luciana Navarro Powell
Year: 2016
Publisher: Millbrook Press TM
Title of Book: Let's Meet a
Firefighter (Cloverleaf Books ™ —
Community Helpers)
Author: Gina Bellisario
Illustrator: Ed Myer
Year: 2014
Publisher: Millbrook Press TM
Summary / Abstract
There are hard hats and soft hats, square hats and round hats. There are e
very tall hats. Some workers wear special hats to help them do their jobs. C
you guess whose hat is whose? Learn all about the different hats worn by
construction workers, police officers, firefighters, and more. An interactive,
illustrated book with plenty of fun facts, Whose Hat Is This? by Sharon Katz
in the form of an occupational guessing game.
https://www.amazon.com/Whose-Hat-This-Workers-
Community/dp/1404819762
Story Based Center Activity: The children will use the puppets that ar
the library center to reenact the story.
Story Summary: If your hands can mix and mash, what job might you
have? What if your hands reach, wrench, yank, and crank? The hands i
this book―and the people attached to them―do all sorts of helpful work
And together, these helpers make their community a safe and fun place
live. As you read, keep an eye out for community members who make
repeat appearances! Can you guess all the jobs based on the actions o
these busy hands?
https://www.amazon.com/Whose-Hands-Are-These-
Community/dp/1467752142/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?
_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Story Based Center Activity: The children can use the felt boards and
recreate the story in there own way.
Story Summary: Are you curious about fire trucks? Firefighting clothes
Hoses and ladders? You're in luck! Firefighter Jim works at the fire
department. He knows how to handle all kinds of emergencies. He show
group of kids how he does his job. Let’s hear it for firefighters!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MBXU6L2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?
_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Story Based Center Activity: The children will use the magnetic board
work on the story vocabulary or to put the story together in their own wa
Title of Book: Career Day
Author: Anne Rockwell
Illustrator: Lizzy Rockwell
Year: 2000
Publisher: HarperCollins
Story Summary: Michiko's mother writes books. Jessica's mother is a
veterinarian. Pablo's father is a construction worker. What kinds of work
people you know do? On Career Day the children in Mrs. Madoff's class
take turns introducing special visitors. Every visitor has something
interesting to share, and together the class learns all about the different w
people do. In the fourth Mrs. Madoff book, Anne and Lizzy Rockwell re
Mrs. Madoff's class as they help young readers explore the question "Wh
do you want to be when you grow up?"
https://www.amazon.com/Career-Day-Anne-Rockwell/dp/006027565

Story Based Center Activity: The children will use the puppets to help
reenact the story.

Library Center Design, Set-Up and Equipment

Brief Description: My library center will have cozy couches and bean bag chares so
students can sit a relax while they are reading a book or listing to the book. I will have
both audio books and books that you can hold in your had and soft books for the
children that have disabilities. It will also be near a window so the natural light can come
in while the children are reading.
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