In Social Studies, we concluded our discussion on community helpers. I asked Danny if he studied the booklet I sent home yesterday and he said, “yes.” He must have, because he did a fantastic job on our follow up assessments today! He completed two different activities in which he had to name the community helper pictured and provide a very brief, but concrete description of their basic functions. He scored 10/10 and 11.5/12 on each. I was so proud of him! Additionally, he completed tasks in the Social Studies workbook in which he scored 3/3. He was able to find the two people that work at a school, which individual was not a community helper (astronaut), and which item pictured makes furniture (truck carrying logs). We reviewed goods and services today with a visual computerized reader on PebbleGo as well as a Brain Pop Jr. learning video. We then completed a follow up worksheet together, determining which is a good and which is a service. Danny has shown some understanding of the concept, but it is quite tricky to grasp at this age. We will readdress more on the topic of goods and services with money and economy based concepts later in the year. To wrap up today’s discussions about goods and services, we finished off with some practical examples in simple books. We read “Curious George Visits the Library” by Margaret & H.A. Rey, in which George interacts with a librarian at story time and getting a library card. We also read “Otter – The Best Job Ever!” by Sam Garton, which has Otter searching for a job. Next, we read “Maisy Drives the Bus” by Lucy Cousins, in which Maisy is a bus driver. Finally, we read “Pete the Cat’s Train Trip” by James Dean and we learned about the conductor and engineer. Danny earned a few extra minutes at the end of our session practicing short a word families on Starfall Learn to Read.