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North Carolina Foundations for Early Learning and Development Goal CD-9a: Use play to communicate what they know about their community (pretend to go to the store, pretend to be a police person)

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Expressing ideas
Taking turns
Imagination
Problem solving
Perspective
Symbolism
Sequencing

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Who helps people when they are sick?  How would it feel to be a doctor? Who else helps people who are in trouble?

If you were a chef, what would you make? What do you notice a chef wearing?

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Superhero costumes
Chef outfit
Firefighter outfit
Police outfit
Ballerina tutu
Doctor outfit
Construction worker outfit

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A toy kitchen can be used for pretend play to pretend being a chef.

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They can be used to act out many imaginitive situations children observe in the community!

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Food can be used to pretend to grocery shop, or feed to a baby doll!

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These can be used for imaginitive play, mimicing adults cleaning up in various roles in the community.

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This song helps children assign a meaning to the words that describe occupations! As the man sings about each occupation in the video, the person is shown. For example, when the man in the video sings "I want to be a Daddy", a picture of a man holding a baby is shown.

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TheLearningStation - Kids Songs and Nursery Rhymes

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Occupations Song ♫ Community Helpers Kids Song ♫ Best Kids Songs ♫ Career Song ♫The Learning Station

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These help children learn how to speak from the perspective of the animals and interract with their friends who are pretending to be voices of the other animals!

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Pretending to use tools helps children act out what they see in people fixing parts of the community.

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Maybe You Should Fly a Jet! Maybe You Should Be a Vet! by Dr. Seuss

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Maybe You Should Fly a Jet! Maybe You Should Be a Vet! by Dr. Seuss

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This book uses a fun rhyming scheme to ask children questions about what they want to be.

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This book has been a favorite of children for decades.  The book is very large, and is full of pictures showing real people in the outfits they would wear to their jobs, and shows a few of the activities they do during their day!

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This activity would entail the teacher passing an assortment of community helpers' tools around to the children.  The children would then get to guess who in the community would use that tool.  For example, if the tool was a stethoscope, the child could speculate that a doctor would use that tool.  This would provide the opportunity for the teacher to ask open ended questions such as "Why does this tool help the doctor?"  These questions elicit creative answers.

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Every child in the classroom would bring a small stuffed animal for the day, and we would pretend as a class that we were veterinarians for the day.  A teacher would provide doctor tools and would convert a part of the classroom into a pretend vet clinic.  The class would engage in dramatic play with one another, and the teacher would float from child to child, asking what was wrong with the animal they were caring for and how they were planning on treating it.  This gives each child a chance to communicate what they know about veterinarians in the community and use their imagination.

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Time for a field trip! Fire stations give free tours to classrooms, and many fire trucks will come to park in a school parking lot for little ones to come observe. For this activity, the teacher would provide the children with mini plastic firefighter helmets to wear. We would sing the song "Here comes the firetruck" by Super Simple Songs in order to acquaint the children with the ideas surrounding firefighters. Then we would all go out and look at/touch the firetruck. The main purpose of this activity is to instill wonder in the young children. They would be in awe of the huge red engine!

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Every child in the class would be given a paper chef hat with their name on it.  The children would be provided with materials including rolling pins, mixing bowls and spoons, play dough, shells, beads, pom poms, etc.  They would choose what they wanted to bake (cookies, cake) and would then proceed to mix up the play dough and form their own unique deserts.  They would have the option to decorate their baked goods with the materials provided.

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For this activity, the preschool class would pretend to be construction workers. We would place different tractors and trucks into the sandbox and the children could use them to create a construction site in the sand! They would have a chance to find materials to add into the sand box such as rocks and sticks and could move these around the construction site or build with them. This activity provides children with a chance to use their imagination to create and explore materials outdoors.