Danish job names, and the little -ER that gives them away

Danish makes job names much the way English does, by hanging a small ending on the end of a word. BAGER is the baker and KASSERER the cashier, and once your child has noticed that -ER, neither looks foreign any more. The other four hidden here are POSTBUD for the mail carrier, BALLERINA, FARMACEUT for the pharmacist and PEDEL for the caretaker, each with a picture beside the grid.

BALLERINA is a free gift, spelled identically in both languages, and FARMACEUT gives itself up the moment you say it aloud. PEDEL is the surprise: almost no English speaker guesses it means the person who keeps a school running. POSTBUD splits neatly into post and bud, a messenger — the kind of small unpacking that turns a long word into one a child can hold on to.

This belongs in a people-who-help-us topic, or the week a class talks about what they might be one day. Ask which of the six your child would choose before they start searching, and the words arrive with a reason attached to them. It prints on a single page and works just as well on a screen. Six words, no timer, and no mark at the end.