The kids love career week, it gives them a chance to explore the possibilities, to tell stories about themselves or people that they know, and at the end of it all, to dress up! So we did lots of fun activities, including one where they drew a picture of what they wanted to be and then said why they wanted to be that; but the pictured activity on the right, is a graph we made of each of the students' parents professions, which was a lot of fun. I already knew all the parent's technical titles and then I reduced those to an easier level of understanding for the children. Then they went through and were able to put a star on the proper group, one for their father and one for their mother. It really got the students to talk about jobs and to explore their friends, especially after hanging it up on the fridge for another week or so where they could always come back to it. You can find my activity packet
here.
The original plan was to have the children each make their own jellyfish, however, there were some surprises that popped up and they didn't get a chance to make their own, so I went ahead and made a few myself and hung them up in the hallway. The children loved them, it led to lots of questions, which was a fun way for the kids to learn about jellyfish. I also enjoyed having them in the hallway because it gave some movement and dimension to an otherwise boring walkway.
