Talk about something HIGH INTEREST that the students love to learn about! Social Studies, Reading and Community Awareness all rolled into one! If you are teaching community helpers during the first few weeks of school, to introduce this lesson, use an anchor chart to list as many community helpers as the students know. Ask them, "Do you think a teacher is a community helper?"
Community Helpers!
Next, explain to them that a community helper is anyone who provides a service. Get as many community helpers listed as they know, police, dentist, mail carrier, etc. Then as the lesson continues or as the week rolls by, you can have them add the new ones they learn about to the chart. One of the very best things about studying community helpers is that the students are so excited, their large word, extended vocabulary expands by leaps and bounds.
Next in the lesson, read one of these terrific books to expand their knowledge of community helpers.
{Please see my full disclosure page for more details, but if you click and purchase any of the above books, at no extra charge to you, I will receive a small amount of the purchase from Amazon to help with the cost of this blog.}
Depending on the grade level you teach, the students can complete one of the following activities, alone, with partners or in a group.
Next in the lesson, read one of these terrific books to expand their knowledge of community helpers.
- Busy, Busy Town by Richard Scarry {My favorite!}
- What Do People Do All Day? By Richard Scarry
- Whose Hat is This? By Sharon Katz Cooper
- Whose Vehicle is This? By Sharon Katz Cooper
- Career Day by Anne Rockwell
- Helpers in My Community by Bobbie Kalman
- Delivering Your Mail: A Book About Mail Carriers by Ann Owen
- Keeping You Safe: A Book About Police Officers (Community Workers) by Ann Owen
{Please see my full disclosure page for more details, but if you click and purchase any of the above books, at no extra charge to you, I will receive a small amount of the purchase from Amazon to help with the cost of this blog.}
Depending on the grade level you teach, the students can complete one of the following activities, alone, with partners or in a group.
- Draw a picture of their favorite community helper.
- Cut out magazine pictures of their favorite community helpers and create a collage.
- Write a letter thanking one of their favorite community helpers.
- Create a news interview with a community helper.
- Role Play their favorite community helper and have other students guess who they are.
If these resources are too hard for your grade level, I also have an adorable Community Helpers Coloring Book for your class.
Community Helpers Coloring Pages
I hope you enjoy teaching this fun unit, I have many other Community Helper resources in my TpT store for you.
You will LOVE the 28 Community Helpers Coloring Pages that come in this Community Helpers coloring pages resource! Terrific for a daily coloring page OR have a parent volunteer bind them into a COMMUNITY HELPERS COLORING BOOK for your students. Your students will ADORE these coloring pages because of the cute, cute, cute Community Helpers graphics! Your students can also draw in a Community Helpers background and write about their coloring book page on the back. Use these coloring pages for all sorts of jumping off points for older students to use during their Community Helpers creative writing lessons! Add it to your plans to compliment any Community Helpers Unit! Download these 28 Community Helpers Coloring Book Pages for some INSTANT Community Helpers Coloring Joy in your home or classroom!
I hope you enjoy teaching this fun unit, I have many other Community Helper resources in my TpT store for you.
Follow Me For More Resources and Freebies!
Don’t forget that all my new products are 40% off for 48 hours.
Click this LINK to follow my shop & you'll be notified of these huge savings.
The post Are You Studying Community Helpers? appeared first on Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas.
