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Pets

From City Island · 2023

Pets
3 minPre-KK1st2ndSocial StudiesSocial-Emotional Learning
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Summary

Watt, Windy, Sally, and Piper spend the day volunteering at a dog shelter. Nobody pays them and the work still matters. A clear, kid-sized picture of what volunteering is.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

Three quick questions to run after the short.

  1. What jobs did the friends do at the shelter?
  2. What does it mean to volunteer?
  3. What is something you could volunteer to do at school or home?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: volunteer, shelter, care.

Try it: Write one way you could help someone this week without being asked.