Preschooler's Answers to If I were a....

In my class of 4 year olds, I have a class book that I make called, "Community Helpers".
Basically I ask the kids which community helper they would like to be and why. Of course most of them usually say Firefighter, but I offer some others as well. This year with only 8 kids, I anticipated that most would say firefighter. I was not disappointed.
There were a couple others...but firefighter won, hands down.
For example..it goes like this, "If I were a firefighter, I would... Put out fires-one twin.
"If I were a firefighter, I would...Put out all the fires-second twin.
"If I were a firefighter, I would...Spray water out of a hose-M.
"If I were a firefighter, I would...Help People-K
"if I were a doctor, I would...give shots-M2
"if I were a doctor, I would...make people breathe in and out-A
"If I were an animal doctor, I would...make all the dogs better-A2
"If I were a mail carrier, I would...put mail in the mailbox-L

Now I don't know about you but those sound about right. Pretty simple right? It was tough trying to give them other ideas about what to be. The other options were, Police Officer (which surprisingly got no takers), Teacher, Dentist, Librarian, Nurse, and Garbage man.
I put initials for the kids names since I don't want to put names to the photos that I sometimes post. Then they all get to dress up in their community helper gear, I take a photo and that goes along with the words in the book. Neat book, fun to put together. At the end of the year each child gets to take home a class book. I always have about 13 books to make sure everyone gets a choice instead of having to take the last one book if they are the last to pick.