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Title: Our Community Helpers


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Our Community Helpers
  • by
  • Kim Goschinski
  • Jessica Neuhardt
  • EDE 417

2
Our Community Helpers!
  • Grade level 1st
  • Lesson to educate the students about the
    different community helpers and the roles that
    they play in the community

3
Objectives
  • Students will
  • Identify different community helpers
  • Develop an understanding of the roles they play
    in the community
  • Use technology to explore community helpers and
    their responsibilities to the community

4
Activities
  • Activity 1who are community helpers?
  • Activity 2A trip to the fire station
  • Activity 3guest speaker- police officer
  • Activity 4A trip to the post office
  • Activity 5which community helper would I like
    to be?
  • Follow up activity

5
Activity 1Who Are Community Helpers?
  • Materials
  • Book, All About Things People Do, by Chris Rice
    and Melanie Rice
  • Papers with prompt, If I were a community
    helper, I would be, I would be _____ because
  • Pencils
  • Crayons
  • Felt board with community helpers, uniforms, and
    appropriate props

Click to return to activities page
6
Activity 1 (Cont)
  • Lesson
  • Teacher will read All About Things People Do to
    the class. Afterwards, during whole group
    instruction, the students and teacher will
    discuss the different types of community helpers.
  • The students will then work in pairs at the felt
    board and successfully match the felt people with
    the appropriate uniform and props.
  • While the students are waiting for the felt
    board, they will work individually on writing
    their response to the prompt paper and include an
    illustration.

7
Activity 2A Trip to the Fire Station
  • Materials
  • Signed permission slips for the students to
    attend the field trip
  • Pretend fireman hats for each child
  • Junior firefighters badges (printed the day
    before for each child)
  • Paper or note cards for each student
  • Envelopes
  • Pencils and/or crayons

Click to return to activities page
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Activity 2 (Cont.)
  • Lesson
  • Students will tour the local fire station.
  • They will also have an opportunity to learn about
    the fire trucks at the station.
  • When the students return from the field trip,
    they will each get a fireman hat and a junior
    firefighters badge.
  • The students will write a thank you note to the
    firefighter and let him/her know their favorite
    part of the field trip.
  • The teacher will collect the thank you notes and
    save them for a field trip later in the week.

9
Activity 3Guest Speaker- Police Officer
  • Materials
  • Writing paper or note cards for each child
  • Envelopes
  • Pencils and/or crayons

Click to return to activities page
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Activity 3 (Cont.)
  • Lesson
  • A local police officer will visit the classroom
    and discuss with the students the many
    responsibilities that are involved with his/her
    job.

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Activity 3 (Cont.)
  • When the guest speaker leaves, the students will
    write a thank you letter thanking him/her for the
    visit and telling their favorite part of the
    presentation.
  • The teacher will then collect the letters and
    save them to take to the post office the next day.

12
Activity 4A Trip to the Post Office
  • Materials
  • Thank you notes written to the police officer
    that visited the classroom.
  • Thank you notes written to the firefighter for
    the tour to the fire station.
  • Signed permission slips for each child to take
    the field trip.

Click to return to activities page
13
Activity 4 (Cont.)
  • With a post office worker as a guide, the
    students will tour the post office and see what
    types of jobs are necessary to help communities
    receive and send mail.
  • The students will give the postal workers the
    thank you letters that they wrote earlier in the
    week to the police officer and the firefighter.

14
Activity 5Which Community Helper Would I Like
to Be?
  • Materials
  • DVD-Ricky's Room Community Helpers "The People
    Who Make Your Neighborhood Great
  • Uniforms and appropriate props/tools that
    represents community helpers jobs

Click to return to activities page
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Activity 5 (Cont.)
  • Lesson
  • The teacher will show the students the DVD which
    will help summarize the week and touch on
    additional community workers. In this episode of
    the PBS series, Ricky, the friendly blue
    rhinoceros, along with his little sister, Nicki,
    and his cousin, Harold, learn about important
    people in their community, including police
    officers, firefighters, mail carriers and more.
  • After watching the video, the students will have
    an opportunity to dress up in their favorite
    community helpers uniforms and role play the jobs
    using provided props.

16
Follow up Activity
  • The follow up activity can be used to review this
    weeks lesson and the objectives.
  • The activity creates a good transition into the
    next lesson on maps.

Click to return to activities page
17
Follow Up Activity (Cont.)
  • Materials
  • Classroom computers
  • Neighborhood map with questionnaire
  • Pencils
  • Paper

18
Follow Up Activity (Cont.)
  • Lesson
  • The teacher will review community helpers and
    review map keys for the follow up activity.
  • The students will have an opportunity to work in
    pairs on the classroom computer using the on-line
    webquest to review community helpers.
  • The students will then be given a map and
    questionnaire and will work in small groups to
    answer the questions and locate a minimum of 5
    community helpers on the map.

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Links
  • Miss Renees Kindergarten Pad- an online resource
    for early childhood educators, parents, and
    students, includes community poem.
    http//lilteacher.com/communityhelpers.html
  • A Educational Videos- videos for home schooling,
    learning, and achievement, includes DVD for
    lesson. http//www.aplusvideorentals.com/listing.a
    sp?ID3639
  • edhelper- an online resource for earlychildhood
    educators, parents, and students, includes map
    link for this lesson. http//www.edhelper.com/comm
    unity4_1_1.htm
  • Scholastic community club includes interactive
    activities for students. Link also has the
    firefighters badge needed for this lesson.
    http//teacher.scholastic.com/commclub/firefighter
    /index.htm
  • Webquest- an online resource for early childhood
    educators, parents, and students, includes
    interactive activities for students.
    http//homepages.ius.edu/JLOI/Community20Helpers
    20Web20quest.htm

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In My Community
  • In my community you will findhelpers of most
    every kindfirefighters, doctors, teachers,
    too,police officers and vets at the zoo.In my
    community you will findhelpers of most every
    kind.

Poem from lilteacher.com
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