Community Helpers

1st Grade
Lauren Fox

Essential Questions
Unit: How do communities provide for families?
Lesson: How do community helpers affect our community?

Skills
Give examples of community
workers
Explain how different community
workers help us
Describe how you help your
community
Propose ways you can help your
community when you grow up

Standards
Social Studies:
People in the community have different jobs (teachers, truck drivers, doctors,
government leaders, etc.) 3.1a, 5.3b, 5.3c
There are people in the community who help families to solve problems 4.1f
There are people in the community who help i emergencies 4.1f
Community workers provide services 5.1c
Community workers are diverse 3.1d

Community workers interact 3.1a

Community workers and businesses change over time 2.2a
As communities develop needs, jobs are created 3.1a

Standards (continued)
Language Arts:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.Rl.1.1: Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.3: Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1.1: Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or name the book they
are writing about, state an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide some sense of closure.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1.2: Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some
facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1
topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and
usage when writing and speaking
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization,
punctuation, and spelling when writing

Literature
I Got Community by Melrose Cooper
Do Something in Your Community by
Amanda Rondeau

Community by Gail Saunders-Smith

My Neighborhood: Places and Faces
by Lisa Bullard
On the Town: A Community Adventure
by Judith Caseley

Vocabulary
Community: a group of people living in the
same place or having a particular
characteristic in common
Citizen: A person who legally belongs to a
country and has the rights and protect of that
country
Service: The action of helping or doing work
for someone
Interact: act in such a way as to have an
effect on another
Provide: make available for use; supply

Community Helpers Activity #1

Low: Pick one of the community helpers we have discussed. Draw a picture of what this helper does in
our community.
Middle: Pick one type of community worker (it can be one we discussed or it can be one you thought of
on your own). Draw a picture of what this community helper does in our community. Write a few
sentences to support your illustration and to describe the role this community helper plays in our
community.
High: Pick one type of community worker (it can be one we discussed or it can be one you thought of
on your own). Draw a picture of what this community helper does in our community. Write a few
sentences to support your illustration and to describe the role this community helper plays i our
community. Write one way this community worker helps you specifically. What would happen if we
didnt have this community helper?

Community Helpers Activity #2

Low: Draw a picture of how you help in your community now. Write a sentence to tell how you help in
your community. Next to this picture, draw a picture of how you will help in your community when you
are older.
Middle: Draw a picture of how you help in your community now and write a few sentences to describe
how you help in your community. Think about what you want to be when you are older and draw a
picture to show how you will help in your community when you are older. Write a few sentences to
describe your role in your community when you are older.
High: Draw a picture of how you help in your community now and write a few sentences to describe
how you help in your community. Why is your current role important to the community? Think about
what you want to be when you are older and draw a picture to show how you will help in your
community when you are older. Write a few sentences to describe your role in your community when
you are older. Why is your future role important to the community?

The Firefighting Team (A Community

Helpers Song)
(The Farmer in the Dell)
There goes the fire truck

Its going on a run

It takes a lot of good teamwork
To get the big job done
Roger drives the truck
He knows just where it goes
And Anna is responsible
For hooking up the hose
The firefighters work
To get the job done right
Our whole community feels safe
Morning, noon, and night

Community Helpers (Song #2)

(to the tune of "Oh My Darling
Clementine")
Community helpers,
Community helpers,
Community helpers,
All around,
They are people we rely on,
To help make a great town.
There are doctors,
And nurses,
Firefighters and police,
Emergencies are why we need them,
Any day of the week. There are farmers,
Chefs, and bakers,
Waiter and waitresses,
Feeding people is their job,
They give us food that's good to eat.
There are electricians,
Capenters and plumbers,

On worksites.
They make houses and our buildings,
Safe and sound and build right.
Do you know of any more people,
Who are in your neighborhood,
Who work together to build a community,
That we live in happily?

Websites

http://pbskids.org/cgiregistry/curiousgeorge/on_the_job.p
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http://teacher.scholastic.com/comm
club/index.htm
http://www.brainpopjr.com/socialstu
dies/communities/communityhelpers
/preview.weml

Community Helpers Games

Who Am I? (Making
Inferences)
Community Helpers
Puzzle (Match Helper with
their tool)
Community Helpers Bingo