Community Helpers
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Subject Area: Other | Grade Level: PreK
Lesson Length: 15 minutes or less
Keywords/Tags: #communityhelpers #mailcarrier #trashman
Lesson Description: In this lesson, students will be learning about two of our ten community helpers, the trash man and the mail carrier. In this unit, Students are learning about the different people in our community that are called community helpers. Students are learning who the 10 community helpers are, what they wear and how they help our community. (due to the age of these students this model is targeted for teachers to use while teaching their pre-k level students)

  • Other LD4b Children engage in conversations with adults and children
  • Other LD 3. Children will develop an understanding of new vocabulary introduced in conversations, activities, stories or books
  • Other SS1c Children become aware of the roles, responsibilities and services provided by community workers
  • Other MD 3 Children will sort and classify objects
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Video : Community workers song
Instructions: Please watch the following video before and / or during your lesson as it is a great source to introduce and remind students what you are teaching them about.
Description: This video is a cute video introducing community helpers and what they do for us.
Video : Trashy Town Read Aloud
Instructions: Watch this during one of your two story times and discuss what community helper cleans up our community.
Description: This is a read aloud of the story "Trashy Town" by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha
Video : Mail Carriers Read Aloud
Instructions: Watch this video during your story time and discuss with students what community helper delivers our mail.
Description: This video is a read aloud of the book "Mail Carriers" by Julie Murray.
Resources : Boom Cards Matching Game
Instructions: Use the link to access the boom cards that can be used as a whole group activity during your large group literacy time.
Boom Cards
Matching game for learning about community helpers
Description: This matching game allows students to see a community helper and match the tools they need to the job that the community helper performs.