Our Community- Needs and Wants- Shoes and Clothes

Friends continue learning about community that consist of the people and buildings. There are places where people live, work, learn, and have fun. Communities provide for people's needs and wants. As community grows new buildings and stores may be build.  There are different jobs in a community, and people who do these jobs help community.
As you know, dear readers, we explored different places in our community that provide us with things and services.

On Monday, Sammy needed help! His mom's boots got broken. What should we do? Where should we go? Friends agreed that we can try to fix them. How? We need to find a person who knows everything about shoes and can fix them- A SHOEMAKER.

Pre-K friends took a walk down Brighton 6th and found a Shoe Repair shop.

A shoemaker looked at the boots and said that they can be fixed in few days.

Friends asked the shoemaker how he is going to fix boots?

"With my tools." , said shoemaker.

But what if one's shoes are ripped beyond repair or one just outgrew his shoes? Then, he needs to find the Shoe Store and buy a new pair of shoes. We found a store on Brighton Beach Avenue. 

WOW! We think, this store have a million shoes in it. Shoes are for every occasion- summer shoes, winter shoes, Mary Jane shoes, slippers and sneakers, for babies and adults, for boys and girls, dancing shoes and ...

...fancy Shabbos shoes.

There is other need that occured in our class. We got a Shopping set for our dramatic play. We needed a screwdriver to put some parts together. Our thougtful Benny brought a screwdriver from his home. How his family got one? Where do people get tools from? What kind of store does sell tools that a shoemaker uses too?

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HARDWARE STORE! We found one on Coney Island Avenue. There we saw many tools and things that people would use to repair their houses- paint and paint brushes, water hoses, hammers and screwdrivers, nails and bolts. We bought some things too: screwdriver with four tips, builders gloves and protective glasses, we even made a key for our pretended "house". It was a cool place to visit.