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Cherokee Street Learns About Community Helpers

Pictured: The entire second grade at Cherokee Elementary School learned about economics and how community helpers are paid.

Photos courtesy of the Connetquot Central School District

During an elementary economics unit in second grade classrooms at Cherokee Street Elementary School, students learned how community helpers are paid. They also researched and completed a report about their choice of a community helper and dressed in costume as doctors, policemen, judges, firemen and more.

Cherokee Street Learns About Community Helpers

Cherokee Street Elementary School send graders dressed as community helpers as part of an economics unit.

On a SmartBoard, teachers posed questions about various jobs and students were asked to guess the corresponding community helper. The students then shared their reports and discussed facts about their subjects prior to taking a group photo to commemorate the end of the unit.

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