Pistes d'exploration

Before reading, discuss what parents do when their children are at school. List some of the types of work they do.

As you read, use clues in the illustrations to infer what jobs are held by the mothers in the story. Add them to your list of jobs.

Make text-to-self connections as you read. Discuss how your connections help you understand the story.

Make a graphic organizer comparing what you do and what your parents do during the day. Use pictures and labels to express your thoughts.

Before reading, learn keywords to help understand the text. Find pictures of the featured jobs.

Go on a picture walk and identify people, places or objects that you recognize.

Choral read the story passages and act out some of them.

For the wordless pages, create short sentences (orally) in the same format as the text.

Use the story model and a text template to make a personalized version of the story. Adjust the content to reflect your own reality.

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Mots-clés

Picture book , everyday life , family life , mothers , occupations , parent-child relationships , stories in rhyme , work

Commentaire descriptif

Is going to work so very different from going to daycare? The parallel workday lives of mothers and their young ones is seen from the perspective of four different children. Mother wears appropriate work clothes (scrubs), prepares a lunch and brings it to work. Her child also dresses appropriately (play clothes) and takes along a bagged lunch. They both use the tools of their trade, be it a briefcase or a sand shovel. And certainly they both miss each other and look forward to a snack and a kiss at the end of the day. Sentences that are simple in structure, along with plenty of vocabulary repetition and a large, clean font, make the book useful for building reading confidence: “She sees the surprise that I packed for her,” pairs with “I see the surprise that she packed for me.” Children from different cultural groups are depicted in bright, cheerful colours. The mothers work in a variety of professions and include a doctor, a crane operator and a businesswoman. This reassuring story ends with four sleepy children imagining themselves as astronauts or scientists of the future, “busy all day long. Like Mama.”