Help your students familiarize themselves with their school, community, and the people involved in it.

2 reproducible booklets: My Local Community & Our Community Helpers, plus over 27 activities.

Divided into three sections:

1. Exploring the School Community

• To explore the school environment to make the students more aware of the people who operate it and their location in the building.

2. My Local Community

• This resource extends to the community they live in, the different people, the basic needs of the community, understanding that their community may be a town, city, or village. Students will use maps to locate buildings and places.

3. Our Community Helpers

• To develop an awareness of the workers in a community.

• To develop an understanding of the roles of various people in the neighborhood.

Introduction Includes:

• Learning Expectations

• Vocabulary Lists

• Teacher Information

• Preliminary Preparations for the Teacher

Section One: Exploring the School Community

• Provides four detailed lessons for the teacher and additional worksheets and activities.

Lesson One

Objective:

• To explore the school environment to make the students more aware of the people who operate it and their location in the building.

Lesson Two

Objective:

• To familiarize the students with the physical layout of the outside of a school.

Lesson Three

Objective:

• To have the students develop safe and acceptable behavioral patterns

Lesson Four

Objective:

• To involve the students in the making of a graph.

Activities and Worksheets

Our School Booklet Cover and Blank Page

Worksheet 1 School Helpers

Worksheet 2 School Things

Worksheet 3 School Words

Matching Activity 1 School Helper Words

Matching Activity 2 School Word Matching

* Skills: Word Recognition/Visual Discrimination

(Color and cut out the pictures and word cards. Mount them on a sturdy backing and laminate. Store the cards in an envelope. Attach the instruction card to the envelope. The student will match the word pertaining to a school article correctly.)

School Helper Reading Activity 1

* Skill: Word Recognition, Sequencing Words to Make Sentences.

School Helper Mathematics Activity 1

*Skill: Counting Objects by Ones, Recording Numerals

Section Two: My Local Community

• This resource extends to the community they live in, the different people, the basic needs of the community, understanding that their community may be a town, city, or village. Students will use maps to locate buildings and places.

Lesson One

Objective:

• To introduce students to the aspects of community living.

Lesson Two

Objective:

• To make students more aware of the different structures in which people live.

Lesson Three

Objective:

• To familiarize students with the different types of structures found in the community, their shapes, sizes and functions.

Lesson Four

Objective:

• To acquaint students with places that are used for recreation and enjoyment in a community.

Lesson Five

Objective:

• To acquaint students with places that are used for recreation and enjoyment in a community.

Lesson Six

Objective:

• To make the students aware of the importance of all the possible methods of transportation used in the local community.

Activities and Worksheets

Student Booklet – My Local Community

Community Store Snip Art

Community Store Word Cards

Community Buildings Snip Art

Community Buildings Word Cards

Community Homes Snip Art

Community Homes Word Cards

Community Vehicles Snip Art

Community Vehicles Word Cards

Blank Instruction Cards

Community Helpers - Word Recall; Match the Community Helper to its name

Community Transportation- Word Recall; Match the Community Vehicles to Their Names

Community Helpers - Word Recall; Match the Community Helper to its name

Match the Tool to the Helper

Where does each community helper work?

Color the picture that doesn’t belong in each row.

What sound does each community helper begin with?

Which one is different? Circle and color it.

Can you follow the pattern!

Help the community helper get to his vehicle

Mailing a Letter - Cut out the pictures. Paste them in the correct order.

Fire! Fire! House on Fire! - Cut out the pictures. Paste them in the correct order.

Section Three: Our Community Helpers

• To develop an awareness of the workers in a community.

• To develop an understanding of the roles of various people in the neighborhood

This section covers the following four areas:

Each area will be dealt with separately.

1. People Who Maintain Our Community

2. People Who Deliver Things in Our Community

3. People Who Sell Us Things

4. People Who Protect Our Neighborhood.

Lessons Include:

Lesson One

Objectives:

• To develop an awareness of the workers in a community.

• To develop an understanding of the roles of various people in the neighborhood.

Lesson Two

Objective:

• To develop an understanding and appreciation of the duties of police officers in the community.

Lesson Three

Objective:

• To develop an appreciation for the role police officers play in the community.

Lesson Four

Objective:

• To develop an awareness of the work and value of the firefighter.

Lesson Five

Objective: 

• To extend the students' knowledge about the special clothing worn by firefighters.

• To appreciate the duties performed by firefighters.

• To make students aware of the ways fires are fought.

Lesson Six

Objective:

• To make students more aware of the causes of fires and how to prevent them.

Activities:

Booklet – Our Community Helpers

The Police Officer – classifying objects

The Police Officer - Word Study; Sequencing Letters to Make Words

The Police Officer - Sequencing Words to Make Sentences

The Police Officer - Word/Picture Matching

What does the Firetruck carry?

The Firefighter – classifying objects

The Firefighter - Word Recall; Match the Word to the Picture

The Firefighter - Word Recognition; Making Words

The Firefighter - Seeing Relationships: Making Sentences About the Firefighter

Ff Firefighter worksheet

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