Materials
none
Instructions
1. Read the children one or more of the books about people who work at
night (for book suggestions, see the list to the left).
2. Talk with the children about people who work at night. Ask the
children if they have ever been out at night and seen people working.
Ask them what kinds of jobs those people were doing.
3. Discuss the types of jobs that go on all night long and how the people
who work these jobs make our neighborhoods better places.
4. Recite the following poem with the children:
Who Works at Night? by Anonymous
While I'm in bed asleep
At night and dreaming of sheep
People are working to keep
Our streets safe and clean.
Garbage collectors pick up the trash.
Nurses help to heal your rash.
Police officers walk the streets.
Taxi drivers bring folks home to sleep.
So many people work all night
Until the night's first light.
Assessment
To assess the children's learning, consider the following:
l Can the children identify jobs that people do at night?
l Can the children say why it is important for the community to have
people who work at night?