Community helpers books for little learners pocket of. From firefighters and mail carriers to doctors and trash collectors, students practice reading as they learn about the important jobs. My little book of community helpers this is a great addition to your community helpers unit just print and cut out this easy to read book that your students can use to learn more about how certain community helpers assist us in our everyday lives. Children can decorate these printable cards for someone they want to thank in their community. These are my goto, favorite community helper themed activities i do with.
Through these books, they can learn how a community works together to provide services and goods to everyone in the community. Printable community helpers to cut out and colorcommunity helpers printable pocket calendar collectioncommunity helpers emergent readermail carrier printablemail carrier. The book teaches about training mail carriers need, problems they have weather and dogs. I love that this book includes all kinds of community helpers including volunteers. A community helper is someone who works in my community, wears a uniform, and has a nametag. Enjoyable worksheets related to the community helpers with the kids. Sep 21, 2017 this week we combined two very important community helpers doctors and nurses. This book was a tad long for my three, but maybe he was just sick of community helper books, ha.
The community helpers book is a 14 page, printable, 8x11 book. Talking about careers and connecting jobs to people in the community give kids an understanding of how we all work together, and how each job is important. Its over 280 pages of community helper activities and printable books. The file includes a sixpage easy to print and assemble book. We have included two books per page to save time and ink. In the book helpers in my community it describes the roles of everyone that makes a community safe, healthy and better in some way. This section has a lot of community helpers board ideas for preschoolers and kindergartners. A community helper theme teaches students about all the people who live and work in their neighborhood. A community helpers preschool theme can cover many groups of people who help in our neighborhoods explain to the children that a community can be small with only a few buildings and homes or large with many buildings and homes. Heres a list of community helpers books that you can use in your preschool, prek, or kindergarten classroom if you do a. My book of community helper words printable minibooks. These free community helper sort and classify mats help kids learn about people who help us.
In this unit, students will learn about jobs and how community helpers are important to our community. Community helpers is an informational book that presents photographs of a diverse group of people in various occupations. Nov 01, 2015 i know how much you appreciate that timesaver at the end of my ebook, so ive included resource pages at the end of my theme packs as well. As children build literacy, develop vocabulary, practice math concepts, sing songs, sort materials, and participate in dramatic play activities, they learn about the tools, uniforms, and tasks of a variety of community helpers. Clothesline clues to jobs people do by kathryn heling, officer buckle and gloria by peggy rathmann, whose hands are t. Kids love learning about community helpers in their neighborhood.
Let children dictate the messages they would like inside. Young learners make connections to their own life by dictating a story of their own, and inventing other jobs that ted can do. I love that this book includes all kinds of community helpersincluding volunteers. From firefighters and mail carriers to doctors and trash collectors, students practice reading as they learn about the important jobs these community. Dec 08, 2014 free community helpers printables and thanks to those who give extra. Included are 24 pages each with a picture of a different community helper and a shor. Create a community helpers in my neighborhood book or journal for students to record their experiences, write their learning, and illustrate their thoughts. Heres a list of community helpers books that you can use in your preschool, prek, or kindergarten classroom if you do a community helpers theme at any time of. Each page has a large picture to color and a simple sentence with a job to trace. Community helpers preschool activities, crafts, lessons, and. Do you teach a community helpers preschool theme in your classroom. Students copy the community helper word on each page and associate it with the image on the page. My preschooler and i read book after book together as i put together this. Students have to match the tools andor vehicle to each community helper.
We filled the bookshelf with tons of fiction and nonfiction community helper books. If youve followed my blog for awhile, you know that i love coordinating center themes to go with holidays, seasons, etc. You can have your kids cut it out, or you can just leave it as is. Free community helpers printables and thanks to those who. Childrens books are one of my favorite things to add to my first grade classroom. The mini books come with 11 pages of different community helpers. As an amazon associate, i earn from qualifying purchases.
A community helper theme teaches children about the different people who live and work in their communities and the important jobs they do. Community helpers activities and centers for preschool and. Your kids are going to love these fun, handson community helpers literacy center activities. Community helpers books for little learners pocket of preschool. As children build literacy, develop vocabulary, practice math concepts, sing songs, sort materials, and participate in dramatic play activities, they learn about the tools, uniforms, and tasks of. My book about community helpers cant find what youre looking for. This is the perfect way to build their background and activate prior knowledge before we really dive in to community helpers. Free community helpers printable wheel kindergarten worksheets. This book is also interactive in a way that it asks the reader how they can or will help out their community. Learning about community helpers is a fun theme in early childhood. Here are some bubble maps to use when you are learning about community helpers with your kiddos. Community helpers themed printables and activities. I know how much you appreciate that timesaver at the end of my ebook, so ive included resource pages at the end of my theme packs as well.
Grab these printables about community helpers to help your kids learn about and appreciate those who serve for a living. Keep a stack of these in your reading corner or incorporate them into your community helpers lesson plans. Hold up the reading az community helpers book and say, there are many people in our community who help others, such as doctors, builders, teachers, cooks, and farmers. From firefighters and mail carriers to doctors and trash. Community helpers easy reader freebie the simplified classroom. I love the way this books shows different ways to play with words on paper and it helped inspire our activity below. It had excellent pictures and childfriendly descriptions of each different job. Community helpers and all around town preschool and kindergarten activities, games, and crafts. When i am pressed for time, i just send mine home and i tell my kids they can put it together with their parents or guardian. My book about community helpers printable minibooks. Meeting the community workers in our neighborhood and seeing what they do is a great way for my toddler class to learn in the class. To start the theme, we did this community helper puzzle. Sep 08, 2015 kindergarten government strand the purpose of rules and authority figures is to provide order, security and safety in the home, school and community.
We call them community helpers because they provide a service to us. Printables about community helpers homeschool giveaways. Grab this adorable freebie to use during your community helper unit. This is a great way to encourage children to really think about what it means to be part of a community. Since my kids regularly see their pediatrician and we have a number of close family friends who are nurses, they immediately connected with these occupations. There are five different flip book pages that include. Interactive computer matching game memory game flip and match community members with. Community helper preschool printables preschool mom. My book of community helpers a wellspring of worksheets. Report this resource to let us know if this resource violates tpts content. This packet includes a variety of materials to support your community helpers mini unit. It teaches children how important these people are and why these people are so important.
Students name many helpers and draw their own as well. Printable community helpers to cut out and colorcommunity helpers printable pocket calendar collectioncommunity helpers. I used this book in my unit on community for my first grade class and each student was able to relate to at least one of the helpers in the book. Community helpers theme activities, lessons, and printables for prek, preschool, and kindergarten. This christmas we decided to thank our local firefighters with a tray of 60 christmas cookies and extra gum. They are great for preschool, prek and kindergarten. This is such a cute book and my kids are so engaged wanting to listen to the clues and guess whose hands are being described. A community helper can be almost anybody in your community. Teach children about all the people that help to make our communities safe and healthy places to live with this printable book. Jan 22, 2020 that is worth the time in teaching our kids about community helpers. Having done a unit on community helpers, i know there arent a lot of good picture books that introduce many different kinds of jobs. Community helpers bubble maps community helpers kindergarten.
These 15 community helpers books for kids are great to add to your plans for a community helpers unit, or to read anytime. Having done a unit on community helpers, i know there arent a lot of good picture. All you have to do is take a picture of your students faces and attach to the flip book. This page includes funny community hlepers worksheets for kindergarten, preschool and primary school. If your child is a little older and would like some more detailed information about the dentist and how to take care of hisher teeth, this will be an awesome book.
To help you find the best books for our community helpers theme for october, i have created a book list full of engaging books for your students to read and. If youve followed my blog for awhile, you know that i love coordinating center themes to go with. These are our favorite books about community helpers for prek kids. This book was on the list for the community helpers theme in the preschool curriculum i am doing with my 4 year old son. Our community experienced devastating losses when a forest fire destroyed over 500 homes a little over a year ago. Jessica carter, brooklyn patton, finae rent, and lindsey spencer. Since we are deep into a month about poetry for kids so i had to tie in some poetry to our story time. Identify different community helpers and their importance by creating a mini book. These community helpers books for little learners have an abundance of information for preschoolers. We are so thankful for the firefighters in our area. Community helpers keep us safe, provide care, fight fires, and more.
Scholastic teachablesworksheets, lesson plans, learning games, and more. School community helpers printable mini book freebie school. Identify different community helpers and their importance by creating a minibook. My little book of community helpers community helpers. Use these printables about community helpers to teach your kids how to appreciate them.
This book is not just about community helpers but it does have poems about many things we see daily. Lets celebrate the work people do in our communities. You can make them into a book or just them individually. May, 2017 my book about community helpers mini book also community helpers worksheet for kindergarten. This week we combined two very important community helpers doctors and nurses. Check out my favorites in the community helper booklist post. Community workers my school community helpers printable. Read assigned book about community helper and pairshare retell with a partner what is my job. Now they will be able to identify the different jobs everyone takes care of in their own town. Here you can find community helpers worksheets for children and preschoolers. On the final page, they draw a picture and write the word that describes it. Heres a list of community helpers books that you can use in your preschool, pre k, or kindergarten classroom if you do a community helpers theme at any time of.
Formerly known as scholastic printables, we offer printable activities for any subject. The book, doctor ted is used to kick off this lesson on community helpers. Created with casts udl book builder my mom told me some community helpers are. I liked seeing pictures of rural carriers, including a teeny tiny post office in ochopee, florida. Police officers on patrol by kersten hamilton community helpers fostering positive relationships with police memory community helpers free to printable coloring pages. Free community helpers printables and thanks to those who give extra.
Enjoy this list of community helper themed printables and activities to use with your preschoolers. Community helpers mini books first grade classroom management phonics early childhood homeschool language printables. After you have brainstormed what a community helper does, the children can write a sentence about. The my school community book includes 10 pages of school based community helpers. The book ends by asking the reader what your hands could do. The book helps students understand that many kinds of workers and jobs are important to a community. Help people michael put bad guys in a cage anthony firefighters help us stay safe when there. She also works as a fulltime prek teacher in georgia. Community helpers books for kids the kindergarten connection. Sep 15, 2011 i love that this book includes all kinds of community helpers including volunteers. Pizza at sallys by monica wellington not pictured above, but a great book about people in the community work together community helpers. There are so many fun community helper themed activities you can do with preschool, prek, and kindergarten kiddos.