This week, we decided to change our kitchen centre into something else. We thought about and talked about what other community buildings we wanted to create, and what community helpers we wanted to practice being. We voted between a fire station, a hospital, a restaurant, and a pet store. Pet Store was the winner! We made a plan and followed our plan to bring in items from home and school to make a PetSmart. Our PetSmart reminded us of a real PetSmart, and included pets, labels we made, money, a pet hospital area, pet doctors, xrays, real betta fish, flyers, pets, first aid materials, the list goes on and on! Our PetSmart was full from the very first day, with different children adopting roles of pets (in costume), pet owners, store clerks, animal doctors and hospital workers. We will keep our PetSmart until interest wanes, and then being the process all over again. In the past we have had a bakery, a Subway, a people hospital, a post office, a Tim Horton's, and an Ice Cream shop!