Franklin Community and Community Helpers
We started learning about our community (the town of Franklin) and about community helpers.
The following activities were presented over the month!
Activity #1
One activity was being a detective, looking at clues
figuring out who the community helper is.
We made Case Files that had clues in them to each Community helper. We looked at each clue and made guesses along the way!
Activity #2
We read the book "Who Uses This?" by Margaret Miller. One page showed an item then we made a guess as to who uses the item (i.e.: rolling pin - baker).
For our activity, we sorted items by the community helper that uses them. Each child picked a card, labeled it and decided which community helper uses the tool. For example, the firefighter uses a firetruck, hose, helmet and fire jacket.
Activity #3
We read the book "Clothesline Clues to the Jobs People do" by Deborah Hembrook and Kathryn Heling.
For our activity, each child was given a community helper taped to a Popsicle stick. Clues were read and the child with the community helper being described held up their community helper.
Acitivity #4
In small groups, the children were brought into the hallway where different mailboxes were hung on the wall for different community members (families, police dept, fire dept, etc.). Each child was given 2 letters to deliver. The Police Station address was a blue star, so their mailbox had a blue star and the address on the letter had a blue star. To deliver the letter they had to 'match' the address (color/shape). We talked about the different community helpers, as well as colors and shapes.
Things you can do at home include:
1. visit community helper sites
2. talk about community helpers when you see them
(what they drive, what they do, what they wear)
3. pretend to be a community helper during play
(grocery store, fire fighter, police officer)
4. play 'red light green light'
We made Case Files that had clues in them to each Community helper. We looked at each clue and made guesses along the way!
Activity #2
We read the book "Who Uses This?" by Margaret Miller. One page showed an item then we made a guess as to who uses the item (i.e.: rolling pin - baker).
For our activity, we sorted items by the community helper that uses them. Each child picked a card, labeled it and decided which community helper uses the tool. For example, the firefighter uses a firetruck, hose, helmet and fire jacket.
We read the book "Clothesline Clues to the Jobs People do" by Deborah Hembrook and Kathryn Heling.
For our activity, each child was given a community helper taped to a Popsicle stick. Clues were read and the child with the community helper being described held up their community helper.
Acitivity #4
In small groups, the children were brought into the hallway where different mailboxes were hung on the wall for different community members (families, police dept, fire dept, etc.). Each child was given 2 letters to deliver. The Police Station address was a blue star, so their mailbox had a blue star and the address on the letter had a blue star. To deliver the letter they had to 'match' the address (color/shape). We talked about the different community helpers, as well as colors and shapes.
Things you can do at home include:
1. visit community helper sites
2. talk about community helpers when you see them
(what they drive, what they do, what they wear)
3. pretend to be a community helper during play
(grocery store, fire fighter, police officer)
4. play 'red light green light'
