Community Helpers- Policemen

LESSON TITLE: Community Helpers- Policemen

SUBJECT AREA: Cross Disciplinary

GRADE LEVEL: Kindergarten

TIME ALLOCATION: 90 minutes

I CAN Statements:
I CAN recall key details in a story.
I CAN define the beginning, middle, and end of a story we read.
I CAN write my own safety tip.
I CAN use ten frames to count and recognize different numbers.
I CAN learn about policemen and how they help my community.
I CAN match upper and lowercase letters.
STANDARDS:
RS-Lit: Key Ideas and Details: 1. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a
text.
RS-Lit: Key Ideas and Details: 3. With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a
story.
RS- Lit: Craft and Structure: 6. With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define
the role of each in telling the story.
W: Text Types and Purposes: 1. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces
in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book.
M-CC: Count to Tell the Number of Objects: 4. Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities;
connect counting to cardinality.
a. When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only
one number name and each number name with one and only one object.
b. Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is
the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.
BIG IDEA(S): Community Helpers, Police, Rules, Counting, Writing
GROUPING OF STUDENTS & RATIONALE:
PRIOR KNOWLEDGE NEEDED
Whole group for story time and guest speaker.
Small group for stations.
STUDENT PROFILE (identify special characteristics of
students relative to lesson)
MATERIALS:
- We have one student on an IEP for some learning
-Officer Buckle and Gloria
disabilities. We also have a few students that have
-Rule Writing Star
behavioral issues and trouble staying on task while
-Ten Frame Assessment
following our classroom rules. We also have two
-Policemen Pieces
ESL students in our classroom. One student is from
-Glue
Russia and the other is from Mexico.
-Crayons
-Pencil
MODIFICATIONS TO MEET INDIVIDUAL STUDENT
-Sequence
NEEDS:
-Math Center Materials
- Use of close proximity for the kids with behavior
-Upper and Lowercase Letter Cards
challenges.
-Poster
- Use of smaller groups for more one-on-one learning
:
and interaction.
- Use of Mentor Teacher for support for the ESL
students.
- I will differentiate the Ten Frame Assessment to meet
the different levels of students on their particular
level.

PROCEDURE AND ACTIVITIES

1. PRE-ACTIVITY:
We will read Officer Buckle and Gloria as a class, and then have the kids
recall key details within the story. Also, we will retell the beginning,
middle, and the end.

TIME ALLOCATIONS
15 minutes

Transition: I will dismiss them back to their seats and introduce Officer
Muntean.
2. ACTIVITY
Officer Muntean will talk with the students about being a policeman and
how important it is to follow the rules and stay safe.

15 minutes

Transition: We will go over the different stations and split up into groups
3. POST ACTIVITY
-Stations:
1. Math: Counting the ten frames and matching it with the correct
number badge as a group. Using the clothespin and math cards, the
students will count and determine how many objects.
2. Writing: The students will create their own rule and write it on their
own star. We will then post them on a big poster. Once they are finished
writing, they will match upper and lowercase letters together and put them
in order.
3. Craft: The students will make themselves as a police officer with
Officer Muntean. We will then add their craft as the border around the
poster paper.
4. Read to Self: Students will find a spot throughout the room and use
the books in their book box to practice their reading strategies and sight
word recognition.

15 minutes at each station (60

minutes)

Closure: The class will thank Officer Muntean for spending the afternoon
with us and clean up our stations. We will also hang up our poster outside
the room.
ASSESSMENT
I will use observation to see if my students can recall key details in the story and different key features.
The ten frame worksheet will be used as an assessment to see if our kids understand ten frames and counting.
I will use observation and prompting to help them write their sentence and rule on their star.