The Community Song teaches kids how to be a good citizen in the community. This is a fun citizenship song that teaches kids about being a citizen and being part of their community.
Using the Community Song (MP3), students learn how to be a good citizen in the community by listening to this catchy song.
Using the Going Green Song (Animated Music Video), students learn all about ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle and so much more through a catchy video!
This barn cut out activity lets PreK to 3rd grade children color, cut, fold and glue a 3-D paper barn, roof and silo, then stand six farm animals beside it.
The Wheels on the Bus Song will help students learn in a fun way. This is the classic nursery rhyme that kids love to sing and do the motions.
Using the Caring Song, students learn how to care for others at home. This song will help build confidence and your kids will want to show kindness to others. Our students need a lot of practice and examples of how to treat each other kindly. This song will help your…
This dear valentine activity has K-2nd grade students pick heart word cards for family and school helpers and spell each word on a Valentine card. Answer key included.
Using these Bathroom Door Signs - Enter and Do Not Enter, students improve their bathroom procedures by using these signs to know if the bathroom is occupied or not.
This doctor's office worksheet asks kindergarten students to circle the six pictures that belong at the doctor, from a stethoscope to a first aid kit. An answer key is included, so checking takes seconds.
Using Supermarket Sweep Food Words Activity, students practice reading high frequency words tocollect all of the food items on your shopping list.
This community workers activity has Preschool to 1st Grade children match tool cards to the places helpers work, with a practice page and an answer key included for easy checking.
These firehouse flash cards help preschool to 2nd grade children learn 15 fire station words with fold-over picture cards. Answer key included for quick checking.
This police car craft activity lets Preschool to 3rd grade children cut, fold and glue a 3-D paper police car, then talk about community helpers with six stand-up tool cards.
This draw and write fire safety worksheet lets kindergarten students draw a fire station, a fire truck, a firefighter, and a way to stay safe, then finish a sentence to build early writing.
This Fire Safety Clip Art is a perfect addition to any bulletin board, flyer, or other printable that you use in your classroom when you are learning about fire safety.
Using these Career Flash Cards, students improve their career vocabulary by describing the colorful flash cards.
This modes of transportation activity has kindergarten and 1st grade children spin, sort vehicle cards onto road, tracks, air and water mats, and practice. Answer key included.
This fire station activity has kindergarten and 1st grade children hunt for firefighter tool cards, match clues and crack a secret code. Answer key included.
This police station activity turns kindergarten and 1st grade learners into detectives who match police tools to clues and crack a cookie code. Answer key included for easy checking.
Helpers, places and friendly faces!
Kindergartners learn that a community is a place where people live, work and help each other. They meet community helpers like firefighters, doctors, police officers, teachers and grocers, and learn what each one does. They explore places in town, like the fire station and supermarket, and talk about how they can be good helpers too. The click moment comes when a child sees a mail carrier on a walk and says, "That's a community helper!"
Kindergartners learn about community through songs, pretend play and their own neighborhood. Here's what works.
Sing the Wheels on the Bus song and stop the "bus" at pretend places around the room: the fire station, the store, the library. At each stop, ask who works there. Music and movement turn a list of places into an adventure.
Why it works: a catchy, repeating tune gives the brain a hook to hang words on, so sung text is remembered better (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withWheels on the Bus Song (Animated Music Video)SongsOpen it →Show a career card and give one clue at a time: "I wear a helmet. I ride a big red truck." Kids guess the helper. Picture clues build vocabulary and get every child talking.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withCareer Flash CardsFlash CardsOpen it →Lay out pictures of community helpers and their tools, like a stethoscope or a hose, and have kids match them. Then talk about why each helper needs that tool.
Why it works: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.
Try it withCommunity Workers ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Dramatic play is the best way to learn community.
ActivitiesSet up a pretend fire station and practice what firefighters do to keep us safe.
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ActivitiesShop for food words in a pretend grocery store and read your list to the cashier.
Open Supermarket Sweep Food Words Activity →
ActivitiesRole-play how police officers help people who are lost or need help.
Open Police Station Activity →Teacher favorites right now: Community Song, Community Song (MP3) and Going Green Song (Animated Music Video).
They learn what a community is, who community helpers are and what they do, important places in town, and how they can help others.
Common ones include firefighters, police officers, doctors, nurses, teachers, mail carriers, grocers, librarians and farmers.
Use songs, picture cards and dramatic play. Invite a community helper to visit, or take a short walk to spot helpers and places nearby.
Visit the library, post office or fire station together. Talk about who works there and how they help, and thank helpers you see around town.
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