SABRATON – The doctor will see you now.
Rosalind Street was wearing her surgical scrubs Wednesday morning while encamped in front of an array of charts and posters – all overrun with depictions of tibias, fibulas, femurs and the like.
The visual display also stretched out to include vertebrae, wrist bones and every interlocking ligament imaginable.
It was a typically busy morning for an orthopedic surgeon, but no matter: she expected to have her calendar cleared in plenty of time, so she could be home at a reasonable hour.
Good thing. She still has bedtime.
Rosalind is among the first-graders in Katie Boone’s classroom at Trinity Christian School who presented at a career fair for their moms and dads.
“I just want to help people get around,” the future physician said.
It’s never too early to start career exploration at the faith-based school that sits high in the hills over Sabraton, Boone said.
Making the exercise as immersive as could be was the mission, the teacher stressed.
“They thought about what they want to be when they grow up,” said Boone, who worked at a daycare center on her way to her career in education.
Boone’s young charges researched their jobs, dressed the part, got their props in order – i.e., Rosalind’s charts and diagrams – and then talked it up before an audience of those aforementioned Trinity parents who dropped by to see.
“It’s a fun project,” Boone said, “and they really learned something.”
The line-up included anesthesiologists, painters (of the artistic kind) and even a librarian.
Some of the Trinity future job-seekers are going into the family business.
Rosalind’s mom is a nurse, for example.
Others happened upon various vocations and pursuits – just because.
Trinity Christian School first-grader Brooklyn Elliott wants to be a baker when she grows up. From left are Mariah Elliott, Summer Elliott and Brooklyn.
Such as Brooklyn Elliott, who billed herself a baker for the day and already has culinary experience to give kitchen credence.
Brooklyn isn’t bragging, but the tacos she has been known to crank out are kind of famous.
Does she want to run a restaurant or have her own cooking show on social media?
“I don’t know,” she said. “I just like making tacos.”
Which, her teacher said, could come in handy, no matter what she eventually decides on doing for a living.
“Who doesn’t like tacos?”
First-graders at Trinity Christian School in Sabraton held a career day on Wednesday. Emma Boone wants to be a veterinarian. Her mother, Katie Boone, is holding the patient.
