Community Helpers

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Community Helpers

• BY Marie Pitsenbarger
• and
• Marybeth Alemagno
• First Grade
• Week Long Unit

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Objective

• Student will know who community helpers are and
  tell the service that the following helpers
  provide for the community
• Mail Carrier -Teacher
• Construction worker -Veterinarian
• Cook -Doctor
• Mayor -Police Officer
• Farmer -Firefighter

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Content

• Mail Carrier collects and delivers mail to all
  members of the community
• Teacher educates young children
• Construction worker constructs roads, buildings
  and home
• Veterinarian doctor for pets
• Cook prepares food for eating
• Doctor helps people who are not feeling well
• Mayor runs the town
• Police Officer makes sure everyone is following
  the laws to keep us safe
• Farmer grow food and raises animals to provide
  food
• Firefighter puts out fires

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Teacher References

• http//www.first-school.ws/theme/commhelpers.htm
• http//stepbystepcc.com/commworkers.html
• http//www.civiced.org/index.php?pageconstitution
  _day
• http//www.educationworld.com/a_earlychildhood/new
  sletters/newsletterV02N09.shtml
• http//www2.scholastic.com/browse/teach.jsp
• http//www.amazon.com/Mailbox-Bulletin-Boards-Pres
  chool-Kindergarten/dp/1562345834/refsr_1_17?ieUT
  F8sbooksqid1195064614sr1-17
• http//comsewogue.k12.ny.us/rstewart/k2001/Themes
  /community/helpers.htm

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Student References

• http//www.storyplace.org/preschool/preschool.asp?
  themeid21
• http//www.fisher-price.com/us/littlepeople/clubho
  use/games.asp?sectiondoorgameIDLP_WhosattheDoor
  
• http//www.just-for-kids.com/SERCOMH.HTM
• http//teacher.scholastic.com/commclub/
• http//www.cyberstartpa.info/news/WebsiteArchive-O
  ctober2007.php
• http//www.kent.k12.wa.us/curriculum/vtours/fire/t
  our.html
• http//comsewogue.k12.ny.us/rstewart/k2001/Kids/k
  ids.htm
• http//www.apples4theteacher.com/word-finds/commun
  ity-helpers.html
• http//www.goodcharacter.com/ISOC/Citizenship.html
  
• http//bensguide.gpo.gov/k-2/neighborhood/index.ht
  ml
• http//content.scholastic.com/content/collateral_r
  esources/pdf/t/TeachNow_MappingCommunity.pdf
• http//www.hud.gov/kids/whatsjob.html

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Media References

• DVD
• - Rickys Room Community Helpers DVD
• VHS
• - My Community, My Neighborhood VHS with pamphlet
• Webpage
• -People, Occupations, and Community
• -PBS Community Helpers
• Powerpoint
• -Community Helpers Who Wears These?
• Puppets
• -Community Helpers Glove Puppets
• Felt Board
• -Felt Community Helpers
• Dress Up Props
• -Community Helpers Costumes
• Charts
• -Community Helpers Activity Charts

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Media References, Cont.

• Books
• -Community Helpers Series by Mary Firestone
• -Community Helpers from A to Z by Bobbie D.
  Kalman, Niki Walker, Niki Walker
• -ASK NURSE PFAFF, SHELL HELP YOU! By Alice
  Flanagan
• -Career Day by Anne Rockwell
• Cassette
• -People in Our Neighborhood
• Bulletin Board
• -Community Helpers Bulletin Board
• -Community Helpers Photographic Mini Bulletin
  Board
• CD
• -People in Our Neighborhood CD
• Memory Cards
• -Community Helpers Word Cards
• -Community Helpers and Careers Learning Cards
• Puzzle
• -People Who Help Us Puzzle

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Children Literature

• Bank Tellers by Katie Bagley, Shannon Duffy, and
  Lois J. Schuldt
• Cahiers by Katie Bagley and Cher Terry
• Chefs and Cooks by Panky Snow
• Construction Workers by Tami Deedrick
• Helpers in Our Community by Lola M. Scheafer
  and Gail Saunders-Smith
• Pilots Fly Planes by Fay Robinson
• Police Officers Protect People by Carol Greene
• Postal Workers Deliver Our Mail by Carol
  Greene
• What Does a Dentist Do? By Heather Miller
• What Does A Doctor Do? By Felicia Lowenstein
• What Does A Mail Carrier Do? by Lisa Trumbauer
• What Does a Teacher Do? by Felicia Lowenstein
• What Does a Truck Driver Do? by Lisa Trumbauer
• When I Grow Up The Community Helper Resource
  Book by Dayle M. Timmons and Kerry Rogers
• Youre a Community Helper by Karen Bryant-Mole

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Geography Activities 1 and 2

• ACTIVITY 1
• WHAT IS A COMMUNITY HELPER, ANYWAY?Encourage
  children to work on a definition of community
  helper. This will be a work in progress,
  constantly changing as children meet or learn
  about community helpers. Compare each community
  helper against the definition. (As the number of
  community helpers examined increases, the
  definition will become more generalized.)
• Materials
• Chart paper
• Marker
• ACTIVITY 2
• Materials
• Costumes and props
• Children will dress up as a community helper and
  share with the class their costume. They will
  explain why they are dressed that way and what
  that community helper does to help our community.

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People in Societies Activity 3

• ACTIVITY 3
• Have the children look through ethnic cook books
  and see what recipe they want to make. Have them
  create their own recipes by cutting out pictures
  of food and glue them to their recipe card.
• Children can then create names for their dishes
  and share their creation and the cultural
  background
• Materials
• Glue
• Magazine pictures of food
• Large index cards/Construction paper (recipe
  card)
• Markers
• Cook Book

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Activity 4

• When learning our addresses we will place them on
  large index cards. Next we need a stamp.
• Making our own Post Officer Ink
• Materials  
• 1 tsp. food coloring, 3 TBS. liquid starch, 1
  TBS. waterDirections Mix the ingredients to
  use as ink for any rubber stamps

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Government Activities 5 and 6

• ACTIVITY 5
• Have a Police Officer come in and talk to the
  class telling them what he does to make their
  neighborhood a safer place. He will then pass
  out police badges to all the students
• Materials
• Badges
• Police Man
• ACTIVITY 6 The Line Up!
• The Police officer will fingerprint them and
• trace their outlines as if they had committed
• a crime and the students will decorate them
• Materials
• White bulletin board paper
• Makers
• Crayons
• Ink (for fingerprinting)

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Social Studies Skills and Methods Activity 7

• ACTIVITY 7
• We will read the book Old MacDonald Had a Farm
  and identify the main idea on the worksheet
  below. We will then discuss the job of a farmer
  and how he is a community helper.
• Materials
• -Old MacDonald Had a Farm by Frances Coney
• -Main idea worksheet
• -Pencil

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Activity 8

• Doctor bags
• Use a file folder as a medical bag cutting out a
  handle. Have students glue items into their bags
  
• Talk about a veterinarian and a doctor. What is
  the difference?
• Materials
• File folder bags with handles
• Cotton balls
• Tongue depressors
• Cotton swabs
• Band-aids
• Gauze
• Dog treats
• Stethoscopes
• Have students paint each the cupped areas of an
  egg carton (cut up one for each child) then poke
  a hole and put a piece of yarn through for a
  stethoscope!
• Materials
• Egg cartons
• Yarn
• Hole puncher

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Geography Activities 9 10

• ACTIVITY 8
• Using the symbols we made in activity 1 have
  students create a map of our town labeling the
  community helpers with our symbols.
• Materials
• Tag-board
• Markers
• Map of our town
• ACTIVITY 9
• Visiting the Mayor!
• Using the map of the town we made, we will plan
  route we will take there and back. Such as turn
  left at the library, turn left at the stop sign.
  This will help with giving directions to a
  location.
• Materials
• Our maps
• A step by step direction route on chart paper
• A marker to trace our route

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People in Societies Activity 11

• ACTIVITY 11
• The local construction company will send a
  foreman to show the children how our culture uses
  wood, bricks, and other materials to build homes,
  while other cultures use mud, sticks, and leaves
  to build their homes! Together we will use
  materials to construct a home.
• Materials
• The Construction worker
• Popsicle sticks
• Twine
• Clay

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Review Activity

• Materials
• Markers
• Magazine pictures
• Construction paper
• All our friends helps
• Together we will create an ABC book of community
  helpers. Each child will get a letter.

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Study Tool

• Study Tool
• Have the children obtain information about
  community helpers using a variety of resources,
  both orally (what they have learned) and visually
  (in books). Have them create a memory card game
  of community helpers and what they each one does
  to help the community. These memory cards will
  be used as a study tool to help study for their
  community helpers test.
• Materials
• Index cards
• Pencil
• Variety of resource books

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Assessment

• Assessment Procedure
• The following day the students will play the
  memory game in a center with the teacher. The
  teacher will have a checklist similar to the one
  on the next slide to assess whether the students
  have learned each community helper and their
  correct job. These community helpers below would
  be some examples of the community helpers they
  would be assessed on.

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Assessment

• Assessment Tool
• As you ask the student what each community helper
  is and their job the teacher would check the box
  below. Each question is worth 2 points. 1 if
  they know the correct community helper and 1 if
  they know the correct job that matches that
  community helper.

• Community Helper
• Assessment Checklist
• Student __________________________
• Mail Carrier Teacher
• Construction worker Veterinarian
• Cook Doctor
• Mayor Police Officer
• Farmer Firefighter
• Total points ________________