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Introduction
• Have you ever felt like you did something
nice and no one ever told you thank you?
How would you feel? Well, our community
is made up of several community helpers.
What are some community helpers that
you know of, and how can we say thank
you?
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• We must now learn about some different
community helpers.
– Discoverer
– Describer
– Predictor
– Explorer
– Creator
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• We are going to learn about 4 different
community helpers and at the end we are
going to say thank you to them for all of
the work that they do for us.
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• The teacher will listen to what the students
are saying when they give ideas to write
the letter. In order to thank someone for
what they do, the students would have to
know and understand the community
helpers that we discussed and the jobs
that they do.
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Evaluation
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Topic
Ideas Given
Discussed correct
community helpers
Discusses the jobs of the
community helpers
Completed (Yes/No)
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• Now we should all know a few different community
helpers and some things that they do around the
community to help us all out.
• Now, I want to find out which one of the four community
helpers that we discussed you would want to be.
Graph Maker
• We will then write a letter to let the community helpers
know how we are thankful for everything that they do.
Resources
• Desimini, L. (2003). Police man Lou and police woman
Sue. New York: Blue Sky Press.
• Greene, R. G. (2005). Fire bears: The rescue team. New
York: Scholastic, Inc.
• http://www.gmrsd.com/liberty/communityhelperswebques
t.htm
234-8271
• http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdtxyLOdn2Y
• http://images.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi
• http://www.sparky.org/firetruck/firetruck_explore.html
• http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jeather/maths/dictionary.
html
• Online images are from Google Images
• Ulz, I, (2002). Fire truck. New York: Scholastic Inc.
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Discoverer
Community Helpers and The Way
They Travel
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List of community helpers in smart art
Mail carrier page
Fire fighter page
Bus driver page
Police officer page
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Evaluation
• Are you guys ready to learn about some community helpers
and what they do? Today we are going to learn about
firefighters, police officers, mail carriers, and bus drivers. We
will find out why they are important to have in our
community.
Everyone works
• Just listen and follow along.
together to help
each other.
Fire
Fighters
Bus
Drivers
Community
Helpers
Mail
Carriers
Police
Officers
Mail Carrier
Firefighter
Bus Driver
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Police Officer
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Here is your job…
• Now that we have gone through and learned
about fire fighters, police officers, mail
carriers, and bus drivers, you are going to
draw a picture for each helper. You will draw
something about them. It could be a tool they
use, the vehicle they drive, or something that
they wear. After you draw each picture you
will label it.
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Evaluation
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Checklist for Evaluation:
Is their name on the page?
Did they draw a neat picture to the best of
their ability?
Did they label the picture?
Are these items appropriate for that
profession?
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Explorer
How Many People Can Fit On
The Bus?
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•Getting ready to Read the book and
then discussion about people on the bus
•Question/Answer
•Description of what they will be doing
First lets read The Smushy Bus
by Leslie Helakoski
Everybody gather
on the rug so we
can read the story.
Now that we have read The Smushy Bus, we are going
to figure out how many children can ride on each of the
buses that I have.
oYou will each be given some
bags with a picture of a bus on
them.
o Each bus will have little bears
in them and will be labeled with
letters. For example: Bus A
oYour job is to count the
number of bears in each bus
and write the number on your
answer sheet.
oYou must fill up your sheet
with the number of bears for
every bus.
1,2,3,4,5,
6,7,8,9…
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Name of Bus
Number of Bears
Number word
A
10
ten
B
12
Twelve
C
19
nineteen
D
14
fourteen
E
17
Seventeen
F
16
sixteen
G
15
fifteen
H
18
eighteen
I
13
thirteen
J
20
twenty
K
11
eleven
Describer
Fire Trucks
Fire Trucks
Fire Trucks
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•Discussion of fire truck
•Read Fire Truck by: Ivan Ulz
•Discuss book
•Explore Sparky’s Fire Truck Website
•Discussion of features using toy model fire truck
•Discussion of movement
•Discussion of push/pull forces using toy model vehicles
• Has anyone ever seen a fire truck?
• Does anyone know some of the
features of a fire truck?
• Now we are going to read Fire Truck
by: Ivan Ulz.
• As we read this story, I want
everyone to look at the fire trucks
and notice some of the things that
are on a fire truck!
• Now, I want someone to raise their
hand and tell me a feature they saw
on a fire truck in the story……..
• To get some more information on the
features of a fire truck, we are going
to look at a website.
• Explore Sparky's Fire Truck!
• There is a toy model of a fire truck.
Raise your hand to tell me a feature
of a fire truck and describe what it
does. You can use the toy model of
the fire truck to show the class what
feature you are talking about.
Movement
• Since we have learned about the
features of a fire truck, we are going
to talk about how you can move it.
Motion
Push
Pull
Roll
• Does a fire truck move?
• How can you move a fire truck?
• Watch me……
• What am I doing?
• Everyone has a model car in front of
them. A model car can do the same
movements as the model fire truck
that we have. I want everyone to
push their model car.
• Now I want everyone to pull back on
their model car.
• So, some one tell me the difference
between a push and a pull.
• If you push something, what happens
to it?
• If you pull something, what happens
to it?
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Conclusion
• So, a fire truck has many different
features that make it up. All of the
features are very important to it. We also
looked at the movement of a fire truck.
You do not have to be driving the vehicle
to move it. Like we did, you can push and
pull a model vehicle to make it move just as
if you were driving it!
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Predictor
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Predicting
Read Policeman Lou and Policewoman Sue
Discuss predictions that were made
Draw a picture of what the story was about
Predicting
• If we make a prediction, what are we
doing?
• With a prediction, we are saying what we
think might happen based on what we
know or see.
Predicting with Reading
• Before we begin to read a book, we can
predict what we think might happen.
• We can read the title and look at the
pictures that are in the book.
• Once we have done that, then we can
predict what we think might happen in the
story!
• Read the title
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1
Step
2
Step
3
• Look at the pictures
• Predict what might happen
• But first, I am going to flip through the
pages of the book. As I do that, I want
everyone to look at the pictures.
• Raise your hand and tell me what you
think might happen in the story (your
prediction) based on the title and the
pictures that you saw.
• As the story is being read, I want everyone
to follow along and pay close attention.
• Now that we have read the story, were
your predictions right?
• Raise your hand and tell me how your
prediction and the story were either the
same or different.
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Drawing
• Everyone is going to draw a picture of
what the story was about. Remember to
include many details and color the picture.
• Your picture can be anything that you
remember from the story that we just read.
Creator
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Table of Contents
Read Fire Bears: The Rescue Team
Discuss labeling and use of letter sounds
Draw a picture from the story
Label the picture
Color the picture
• Lets read Fire Bears: The Rescue Team
by: Rhonda Gowler Greene
Now, we are going to draw and label a
picture from the story.
How do we label something?
• How do we know what letters to write on
the paper?
• We have to use our sounds!
• I want everyone to think of their favorite
part of the story.
• You are going to draw a picture of that.
• Once you have done that, you are going to
label your picture, meaning you are going
to write what you have drawn.
• For example, if you drew a picture of a
bear, then you will write bear.
• You must have at least 5 labels written
down on your paper.
Draw Picture
Label Picture
• Once you have labeled your picture, then
you may color it and then you will turn it in.
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Conclusion
• So, how do we know what letters to write
on our paper?
• Knowing the sounds of our letters is really
important. By knowing our letter sounds,
then we are able to write words and
eventually we will be writing sentences,
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• Discussion of a pictograph
• Creating a pictograph
• Does anyone know what a pictograph is?
• Lets click here to find out……
A Maths Dictionary for Kids 2009 by Jenny
Eather
Lets create a class pictograph!
• Since we have learned about police
officers, fire fighters, mail clerks, and
school bus drivers, we are going to find
out what each one of you would prefer to
be!
Another pictograph example
The Community Helpers We
Discussed…….
Community
Helpers
Police Officer
Fire Fighter
Mail Carrier
School Bus Driver
Title
• What do we think the title should be?
Police Officer
• Raise your hand if you would want to be a
police officer…..
Fire Fighter
• Raise your hand if you would want to be a
fire fighter…….
Mail Carrier
• Raise your hand if you would want to be a
mail clerk……..
School Bus Driver
• Raise your hand if you would want to be a
school bus driver……
Conclusion
• Now that we have made our pictograph,
we are going to count each column to
verify that we have the correct number of
pictures drawn. I want everyone to count
with me.
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