Our Neighborhood at Work(1st grade) – Library Resources

BOOKS(see below for videos, CD ROMs, etc)

Title / Author / Call number / Summary
Ask Nurse Pfaff, she'll help you / Flanagan / 371.42 FLA / Text and photographs describe the work of a nurse taking care of patients at a hospital.
Be my neighbor / Ajmera, Maya / 307.3 AJM / introduction to the characteristics of a neighborhood
busy day at Mr. Kang's grocery store, A / Flanagan / 381 FLA / Describes the work done each day by a Korean American who owns the neighborhood grocery store
Buying a pet from Ms. Chavez / Flanagan / 371.42 FLA / Text and photographs show what is involved in running a pet store: caring for the animals, helping customers, ordering supplies, and more
Chair for my mother / Williams, Vera / E WIL / A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire
Clifford the firehouse dog / Bridwell / E BRI
Custodians / Yanuk / 647 YAN
Dentists take care of our mouths / Greene, C / 617.6 GRE / Describes the different kinds of work which dentists do such as checking teeth and filling cavities.
Doctor / Miller, Heather / 610.69 MIL
Dot the fire dog / Desimini, Lisa / 628.9 DES / Describes the firehouse and work of firefighters, including the dog's way of helping
Firefighter / Miller, Heather / 363.37 MIL
Firefighters A to Z / Demarest, Chris / 628.9 DEM / An alphabetic look at a firefighter's day.
Garbage Collectors / Deedrick / 628.4 DEE
Little Toot / Gramatky, Hardie / E GRA / Little Toot the tugboat conquers his fear of rough seas when he single-handedly rescues an ocean liner during a storm.
Maybe you should fly a jet...be a vet / LeSieg, Theo / 331.7 LeS / Rhymingtext suggests a variety of occupational choices.
Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel / Burton,VirginiaLee / E BUR
My new town / Hall, K / E HAL / While giving a tour of his new town, a young boy introduces the reader to his teacher, dentist, barber, and police officer
Nurse / Miller, Heather / 610.73 MIL
Officer Buckle and Gloria / Rathmann, Peggy / E RAT / Office Buckle gives presentations but Gloria gets the audience
People Working / Florian, Douglas / 331.7 FLO / Briefly, where and how people work
Policeman Lou; Policewoman Sue / Desimini / E DES / All day long these two police work to make the town a safe place to live.
Quinito's neighborhood = : El vecindario de Quinito / Cumpiano, Ina / E CUM / Bilingual
Richard Scarry's what people do storybook / Scarry, R / E SCA / Everyone is a worker: building a new house, mailing a letter, firemen to the rescue, a visit to the hospital, building a new road
Working hard with the busy fire truck / Horowitz / 628.9 HOR / Describes the work fire fighters do in the station and on emergencies
Zookeeper / Miller, Heather / 636.088 MIL

Videos:Richard Scarry's Best Busy People: 45 minutes of songs and stories about people working
WebSites:Scholastic's Community Workers.Hold ctrl + click here--->Community Clubto hear a story about a worker in your neighborhood. Includes quiz at the end

DVDs:Police station. Series: My Community DVD 363.2 SCH Schlessinger Media Summary: Meet the people who work in your community and what they do each day. Includes teacher's guide. Special features: discussion questions & activities ; chapter select. PreK-2. In English and Spanish. 1 DVD videodisc (15 min.) 1 teacher's guide 2006.