Art - Whose Gloves Are These ?

"How We Organize Ourselves" 
Central Idea: The work people perform helps build community
Lines of Inquiry:

• The jobs people do in our community support its development (function)
• We take on roles each day and this helps us build a strong community (responsibility)

This Friday morning, we had a wonderful walk in our neighbourhood to look for community helpers. The children saw some construction workers building a house, a dog walker and a mail box where mail carriers collect letter.

As an inspiration for art activity today, we read the book "Whose Gloves Are These?" by Laura Salas. The children learned how some community helpers need special gloves to work. In the discussion during story time, the children shared their thoughts about what would happen without a certain community helper's service. 
Trystan - "we would have no animal to see in a zoo if there were no zookeepers."
Matthew - "Hotel rooms would be so messy if there were no housekeepers."
As well, we found that some of our duties at home are similar to the community helpers'. 
Brendan - "I help picking up dog poo."
Francine - "I set up the table at home."
Cameron - "I clean up my toys."
We are all responsible community helpers at home!

After the story and discussion, the children had a hand-on art activity to express their own ideas. 

Trace our hands!

Colour or glue tissue paper to decorate the gloves.

Here are our community helpers' gloves!