community help (1)

8/3/2019 Community Help (1)

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Our Community

Helpersby:Kim Goschinski

Jessica Neuhardt

EDE 417


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Our Community Helpers!y Grade level: 1st

y Lesson: to educate

the students aboutthe different

community helpers

and the roles that

they play in thecommunity


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ObjectivesStudents will:y Identify different community helpers

y

Develop an understanding of the roles they play inthe community

y Use technology to explore community helpers and

their responsibilities to the community


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Activitiesy Activity #1

who are community helpers?

y Activity #2

A trip to the fire station

y Activity #3

guest speaker- police officer

y Activity #4

A trip to the post office

y Activity #5

which community helper would I like to be?

y Follow up activity


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Activity #1

Who Are Community Helpers?Materials:

y Book, All About Things People Do, by Chris Rice andMelanie Rice

y Papers with prompt, IfI were a community helper, Iwould be, I would be _____ because

y Pencils

y Crayons

y Felt board with community helpers, uniforms, andappropriate props

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Activity #1 (Cont)

Lesson:

y 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.y The students will then work in pairs at the felt board and

successfully match the felt people with the appropriate uniform

and props.

y While the students are waiting for the felt board, they will work

individually on writing their response to the prompt paper andinclude an illustration.


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Activity #2

A Trip to the Fire StationMaterials:

y Signed permission slips for the students to attend thefield trip

y Pretend fireman hats for each childy Junior firefighters badges (printed the day before for

each child)

y Paper or note cards for each student

y

Envelopesy Pencils and/or crayons

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page


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Activity #2 (Cont.)Lesson:

y Students will tour the local fire station.

y They will also have an opportunity to learn about the fire

trucks at the station.y When the students return from the field trip, they will each

get a fireman hat and a junior firefighters badge.

y The students will write a thank you note to the firefighter

and let him/her know their favorite part of the field trip.

y The teacher will collect the thank you notes and save themfor a field trip later in the week.


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Activity #3

Guest Speaker- Police Officer

Materials:

y

Writing paper or note cards for each childy Envelopes

y Pencils and/or crayons

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page


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y A local police officer will visit the

classroom and discuss with thestudents the many responsibilities

that are involved with his/her job.


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Activity #3 (Cont.)y 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.

y The teacher will then collect

the letters and save them to

take to the post office the

next day.


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Activity #4

A Trip to the Post OfficeMaterials:

y Thank you notes writtento the police officer that

visited the classroom.y Thank you notes written

to the firefighter for thetour to the fire station.

y Signed permission slipsfor each child to takethe field trip.

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Activity #4 (Cont.)y With a post office worker as

a guide, the students willtour the post office and seewhat types of jobs are

necessary to helpcommunities receive andsend mail.

y The students will give thepostal workers the thank youletters that they wrote earlier

in the week to the policeofficer and the firefighter.


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Activity #5Which Community Helper

Would I Like to Be?Materials:

y DVD-Ricky's Room: Community Helpers "The

People Who Make Your Neighborhood Greaty Uniforms and appropriate props/tools that

represents community helpers jobs



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y 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 P

BSseries, Ricky, the friendlyblue 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.

y 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.


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Follow up Activityy The follow up activity can be used to

review this weeks lesson and the

objectives.y The activity creates a good transition

into the next lesson on maps.



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Follow Up Activity (Cont.)Materials:

y Classroom computers

y Neighborhood map with questionnaire

y Pencils

y Paper


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Follow Up Activity (Cont.)Lesson:

y The teacher will review community helpers and review map

keys for the follow up activity.

y The students will have an opportunity to work in pairs on theclassroom computer using the on-line webquest to review

community helpers.

y 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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LinksMiss 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.asp?ID=3639

edhelper- an online resource for earlychildhood educators, parents, and students,

includes map link for this lesson. http://www.edhelper.com/community4_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/Community%20Helpers%20Web%20quest.htm


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In My Community

In my community you will find

helpers of most every kind

firefighters, doctors, teachers,

too,police officers and vets at the zoo.

In my community you will find

helpers of most every kind.Poem from lilteacher.com

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