Items filtered by date: May 2013

4 pages. "Thank you 'berry' much for lending a helping hand. A sweet card for volunteers, room helpers, secretaries etc.

6 pages. 2 different sailboat "craftivities." One for the end of the year with students sailing into the summer; the other for the beginning of the year when students are sailing into a new school year.

10 pages. This game is an excellent way to learn about community helpers.

11 pages. This community helpers dice game, reinforces numbers 1-12, as well as simple addition. Graphics copyright DJ Inkers www.djinkers.com Used with permission.

1-2-3 Come Do More Community Helper Activities With Me!

Since the other community helper activities have been such a huge hit, I decided to design a few more. If you missed the other 2 community helpers articles, simply scroll down. They come after the strawberry and sailboat blogs.

Taking a photograph of the individual makes their page extra special. 

I've included a clipboard template, with an interview form for students to follow and fill in.  Completed pages also make a nice class book.

Click on the link to view/download the Community Helper Interview writing prompt.

Finally, I made a Community Helpers Alphabet Booklet. 

Students color, trace and write the upper and lowercase letters and then write down a community helper that begins with that letter.

If you need help thinking of community helpers and their occupations, I've compiled a list of over 300 and put them in alphabetical order from astronaut to zookeeper.

Click on the link to view/download the alphabetical list of community helpers.

Click on the link for the Community Helpers Alphabet booklet that your students make. For those of you who don't study community helpers, but would like to make a generic alphabet booklet, I've included a different cover for you.

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1-2-3 Come Do More Community Helper Activities With Me!

Scroll down if you missed yesterday's Community Helpers article. 

As promised, here are a few more community helper activities to round out your studies.

If there is something specific you're looking for, that I didn't cover, feel free to shoot me an e-mail and I'll see what I can do.diane@teachwithme.com

I have so enjoyed designing community helper - themed items.

An interesting and fun way to study community helpers is to compare and contrast them. 

An easy way to do this, is by using a Venn diagram.

I've made 11 different Venns comparing 22 community helpers, and included a blank template if students want to choose 2 others that are not provided.

To explain and demonstrate the lesson, put one up on your white board and do as a whole group.

Afterwards, children partner up and choose a Venn diagram that they will fill in together. 

Each child does their "different" half of the diagram, and then they take turns writing the similarities in the "same" section of the Venn diagram.

Children share their diagrams with the class.  Display them in the hall, on a bulletin board, or collate them into a class booklet.

Click on the link to view/download the Community Helpers Venn Diagram packet. 

I've also designed a picture and word card sorting activity entitled "Tools of the Trade." 

Children place the appropriate "tools of the trade" picture cards that are associated with a community helper, on a sorting mat. 

There are 85 picture cards to choose from, 10 sorting mats + community helper word cards.

Click on the link to view/download Community Helpers' Tools of the Trade activity packet.

Another fun game is "Name That Community Helper."  The teacher or students read 19 clue cards. The first child with the correct answer, writes it on the card.

There are also more than enough pictures of community helpers, to make a class-set of "Popsicle-stick puppets."  (Teachers laminate, cut out and glue a community helper to a Popsicle stick.)

Before the game begins, teachers pass the community helper "Popsicle puppets" to their students.

Children hold up their community helper puppet when the appropriate clue card is read.

Click on the link to view/download the Name That Community Helper packet.

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