Career Day!

We have had such a fun day in first grade today! In honor of the Labor Day holiday coming up, we spent the past week talking about community helpers and other jobs that people do. Each day we watched a short video about a community helper, completed a bubble map together about their job, and then wrote in our journals about them. We learned about veterinarians, postal workers, firemen, and policemen throughout the week. After we talked about what the person does in their job, we talked about the requirements to become one of those people. Today was our own career day. The children each came to school dressed as what they think they might like to do when they grow up.

We had an undercover policeman, a K-9 officer, a racer, a hair stylist, a gymnast, a veterinarian, a teacher, a train engineer, a cake baker, an engineer for wind turbines, and a karate instructor! Wow! Each child was able to get up in front of the class and explain the different parts of their costume and how they would use them in their chosen career. They also talked about what they would have to do in order to achieve these goals. After we had our show and share time the children wrote about what they would like to become in their journals. This was a great way for the children to start thinking about what it takes to achieve their goals. The children learned about all of the different schools they may have to go to or the trainings they might have to have in order to do these jobs.

Friday always brings Munchie Math as well...one of my personal favorite things of the week! This week we were working on sorting and then placing items on a graph using fruit loops.

First we sorted the fruit loops by color.

Then we placed the fruit loops on our graphs.

After we had made our concrete graph, we took it to the semi-concrete level by drawing fruit loops on to our pictograph.

After we finished, each child had to circle which color the had the most of to review a math term, "most", that we have been working on this week.

What a fun and delicious way to learn sorting, graphing, one-to-one correspondence, and counting!!