Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood?

For the past month or so, I have been teaching Lilly and a few of her little friends about different community workers.  We have discussed post office workers, firemen, and just recently we talked about garbage men. 

As part of the lesson, we made a map of a neighborhood and put pieces of "trash" on it, having the kids pretend to be the garbage man (or woman) go around to pick it up.

I was truly surprised at how interested they all were in driving cars around the neighborhood and adding places on the map.