👮♀️👨🚒👩⚕️ Community Helpers
I hope you enjoy the Community Helpers Lesson Plan! Here is a quick overview:
Community Helpers Guided Writing
Songs About Professions
Community Helper Puzzles
Community Helpers Reading Comprehension
Dot The Rhyme
Telling Time - Analog and Digital - Hours Only
Train Station Dramatic Play - Telling Time
Sensory Play: Community Helper Dress Up and Storytime
Who Am I? Community Helper Charades Cards + Relay Race
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👮♀️👨🚒👩⚕️ Community Helpers
Community Helpers - Guided Writing
There are so many important jobs in our community! Encourage students to write about community helpers while learning about different jobs in our community and the roles they play.
Songs about Professions
Learn about different workers in your community with this fun series of songs by our favorite singing robots, the StoryBots!
The professions featured are Architect, Firefighter, Software Engineer, Teacher, Veterinarian, Farmer, Police Officer, Chef and Pilot.
Community Helper Puzzles
By: Williams Sisters
Perfect for a Social Studies center, these mini puzzles teach students about the different helpers in our community and the tools and vehicles they use.
The first puzzle set matches each job to the tools they need to do their job. Jobs: police officer, soldier, firefighter, doctor, vet, coach, construction worker, mail carrier, mechanic, chef, dentist, teacher, carpenter, and clothes designer.
The second puzzle set matches each community helper to their vehicle. This set includes: soldier, pilot, garbage collector, firefighter, paramedic, business woman, police officer, coach, farmer, mail carrier, baker, forest ranger, zookeeper, and parent.
English Language Arts - Rhyming Words
Community Helpers Reading Comprehension
Assess reading comprehension while teaching about workers in our community! This set of 16 reading comprehension pages are great for assessing reading of informational text. Includes 9 passages with a Lexile Range of 10L-200L and 7 passages with a range of 210L-400L (Kindergarten - 2nd Grade).
Dot The Rhyme
Dab-A-Dot Markers make any activity so much more fun! These pages are always a hit with my girls. My five year-old had so much fun dotting the matching rhyme, she used rainbow colors to make it extra pretty. And meanwhile my two year-old made lots of dots, most of which were on the paper.
Reading Lessons
There are only two resources I like to make sure I include on each week’s lesson plan, Prodigies Music (below) and Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons. This book has thousands of 5 star reviews on Amazon for a reason. It’s an effective, no-prep way to teach reading. We are 70 or so lessons in the results have been amazing, my daughter can pretty much read anything. Still working on trying not to skip words and sounding out instead of guessing, but it’s been very effective.
The lessons are short (15-20min), easy to grasp and sequential. The entire lesson is scripted and color coded so it’s fool proof, just read the words in pink. It also is designed for kids that don’t know their alphabet or letter sounds yet, so you can start right away. Their claim is that after completing all 100 lessons your child will be able to read at a 2nd grade level!
Math - Telling Time
What Time Is It?
Explore the concept of time with this no-prep unit. Build a solid foundation for understanding the abstract concept of time with lots of practice.
Start by explaining the different formats of time: digital, analog and written. Then practice filling in a clock, match different time formats, draw in the hour hand and more.
This unit focuses on whole hours and starts with sequential work to help reinforce the concept through repetition.
Units of Time Poster
I hope you enjoy these two great resources for helping to teach how to tell time. Include the poster in your morning work binder, circle time lesson or post it up in your classroom for easy reference.
Laminate the clock mat or use a sheet protector to use with PlayDoh or dry erase markers. Great for practicing telling time on both analog and digital clocks.
Train Station Telling Time -Dramatic Play
Choo, Choo! Learn about telling time and the different jobs people have at the train station. Includes conductor, engineer, security, chef, server and ticket clerk.
Set-up your station and ticket booth, add traffic signals, platform clocks and train signs, make your own train schedule, assign roles for play, take ticket orders, design train tickets and more! This play set focuses on whole hours only. It includes worksheets for telling time on digital and analog clocks as well as writing out the time.
Art and Music
Community Worker Hats
By: Totschooling
This is the perfect way to start off Community Worker week!. My girls had so much fun dressing up as different community workers with these amazing free hat printables by Totschooling.
There are 10 different hats: Firefighter, Police Officer, Mail Carrier, Doctor, Nurse, Construction Worker. Pilot, Farmer, Detective and Chef. The band for each hat features the tools that each worker would use to do their job.
We kept the hats up throughout the week so they could dress up anytime they wanted. They even set-up little scenes where they could act out each job, loved this!
Prodigies Music
Do…Re…Mi…
We love Prodigies! Prodigies Music is simply an incredible curriculum for teaching music. Ages 2-5 is the critical time to develop a life-long sense of pitch. Their curriculum is designed to develop a sense of pitch with easy to use desk bells that don’t require any tuning. They also teach piano, recorder and ukulele. Their subscription includes everything you can think of 450+ videos, worksheets, free bell mats, sheet music all color coded so it’s super easy to learn. If you don’t have an instrument they have a bunch of rhythm focused content that doesn’t require an instrument. They even have a free bell app that I use with my toddler when my oldest is practicing.
They have a free trial and discounts for annual memberships! Great deal! You can even check out some of their videos for free on YouTube.
Science - Force and Motion
Forces Make Things Move - Storytime Play
I love storytime play! Whenever I can, I pair a great book with an appropriate toy. This week we played with our community helper vehicles while we learned about pushes and pulls.
Learning about Forces and Stability are one of the main science standards for Kindergarten so we try to integrate it into as many lessons as we can.
Supplies: Forces Make Things Move Book, Melissa and Doug Town Vehicles
Social Studies
Community Helper Sorting Mats
By: The Measured Mom
All workers in our community use different tools to do their jobs. Learn about the tools needed to perform each job with these fun sorting mats. Includes four occupations: police officer, mail carrier, baker and fire fighter.
Career Focused Biography Report
My daughter loves illustrated history books, especially biographies. We explore what careers she may be interested by reading about successful people in various fields of interest.
Then choose a person to complete a biography report on. This awesome template by Lindsey Goff Viducich can be a more in depth project or a basic report.
Sensory Play
Community Helper Dress Up and Storytime
My girls love it when I incorporate reading and play. We took turns reading different books and matching the outfits on this awesome magnetic dress up toy from Melissa and Doug. Our favorite book was “Clothesline Clues to Jobs People Do”.
Filler: black beans
Supplies: Melissa and Doug Magnetic Dress Up - Julia (they also have a male version named Billy), wooden scoops
Physical Education
Who Am I? Community Helper Charades Relay
Role play + a relay race makes this activity a blast. Take turns running to pick a card. Then act out the community helper on the card. Charades rules apply! Once the correct job is guessed, it’s the next person’s turn to run and get a card. Keep playing until the cards run out (16 cards total). The person or team with the most cards wins!
These cards could also be used as vocabulary cards in a literacy center or just print two copies to create a memory matching game!
Book List
Don’t have the budget or space to get more books? The library has been pretty great for us so far, but they are sometimes out of the more popular books. One place that you can always count on to find great books is Epic Books! Try Epic Basic for FREE! You can find awesome read to me books for free, Unlimited plan includes access to 40,000+ books!
Know of any other awesome Community Helper themed resources? Please comment below!
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