Goal:  

• Students will be able to identify different types of community helpers and some tools they need to do their job properly, as well as explain how the jobs benefit the community. 

Standards:  

• K.3 I can tell you about different types of jobs in my school, in my community, and in the past. 

Materials:  

• Video on Community Helpers (4:17 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt2q1cHsH6E

• Community Helpers Worksheet: https://www.education.com/worksheet/article/community-helpers/

• Community helpers word wall downloads: https://preschoolmom.com/wp-content/uploads/PMom/CommunityHelper/CommunityHelperWordwallPack.pdf

• Chart paper and markers

Activity:

1. Watch the Youtube video on Community helpers.

2. After the video, ask student to name a few community helpers that they saw in the video. Then, ask student if they know anyone that is a community helper. 

2. Next, hang pictures of community helpers using the community helpers word wall downloads and start a discussion about what your child sees and who they recognize as community helpers/jobs.

3. Ask questions about the community helper photos. For example, you can ask, “Who keeps people healthy?” (doctor) or “Who keeps people safe?” (police officer)

4. Next, have the student brainstorm other community helpers that were not pictured on the front board. Consider writing them on chart paper to add to the word wall. 

5. Next, go over all the community helpers that student has brainstormed or learned about, and ask student to think about the tools each helper needs to do their job properly. Write down student’s answers next to each job on chart paper. Feel free to help prompt the child if needed.  

Follow-up ideas: (can be completed on subsequent days)

~Go for a walk or drive in the neighborhood and look for more community helpers- maybe there’s some you forgot or use this as a way to help prompt your child.

~Complete the Community Helpers worksheet or the student drawing pictures of community helpers they learned about.  Follow-up can also include discussion of the pictures they made and adding tools or vehicles that the job uses.

Goal:  

• Students will identify if various actions are considering being a “good citizen” or not. 

Standards:  

• K.1: I can show that being a good citizen means acting in certain ways. 

Materials:  

• Print out of the “posters”/pictures below.  Good citizen, bad citizen, 2 sets of citizen cards, and the follow-up worksheet.  Cut the citizen cards on the line- have your student practice their cutting skills by having them do it. 

Activity:

• Parent can begin by bringing up the topic of rules in the home and why they have those rules.

• Tell the student that we have rules in our community and country and those are called laws.  Laws are rules citizens must follow.  A responsible citizen is someone who makes sure they are following the law, and treating other citizens with kindness.

• Using the pictures below (printed out), tape the “good citizen” and “bad citizen” up on opposite sides of a room.  Have the student pick a citizen card and read it aloud to them.  Then have the child choose if that was an example of a good or bad citizen and walk to either the good or bad citizen side of the room.  Consider taping them up as well.  Then have them explain why they made their choice.  (based on what the card said about that citizen).  Help them make corrections if necessary.

• After going through the cards, talk about traits of a good citizen (kind, honest, etc.)  You may want to write these words on chart paper and add them under or near the “good citizen” print out- especially if you plan to leave these up for a while. 

Follow-up with the last print out that asks students to draw their own example of being a good citizen.  You can ask them what their picture shows and write down what they dictate to you, or if able, have them trace or copy the words themselves. 

Goal:  

• Students will be able to name the days of the week and months of the year.  

Standards:  

• K.5: I can put events in order using a calendar. I can put the days of the week in the correct order. I can put the months of the year in the correct order.

Materials:

• YouTube Video: Days of the Week Song by Maple Leaf Learning 

• YouTube Video: Months of the Year by KidTV123

• Calendar posted somewhere student can see and work with the calendar 

  • (a pocket learning calendar is best, but any calendar will work)

  • Here’s a great tool to meet this goal every day using a very interactive calendar using some of your funds!

https://www.amazon.com/KINGTLE-Interactive-Activity-Classroom-Educational/dp/B09QM8WJL7/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=preK+calendar+interactive&qid=1684971844&sr=8-5

Activity:  

1. Explain that calendars are how we keep track of our days. Days are grouped into weeks, weeks are grouped into months and months are grouped into a year. 

2. Point to the current day and count up from 1 to the current day of the month. Every day have student mark the day (either by placing something on it or by marking it with a marker) Everyday discuss what month it is, what day it is and what the date is. 

   • Many parents also use their calendar to discuss weather/season. 

3. As you move through discussions about the calendar the use of song can help students to order days and months. Start with days of the week and a song like this one which is easy to remember as it is set to a popular song you already know (therefore it is easy to recall). 

4. Be sure to also mark important upcoming dates on the calendar (birthdays, holidays, appointments, etc.). Let your student decorate important dates on their calendar and discuss the importance of those dates with them.

Goal:  

Student will be able to identify various holidays and why they are celebrated. 

Standard:  

• K.6.1 I can tell you why we celebrate different holidays that happen throughout the year. 

Materials:  

• Brain pop video: https://jr.brainpop.com/socialstudies/holidays/thanksgiving/ 

• My Holiday Traditions Worksheet: (free or below) https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/My-Holiday-Traditions-Freebie-2219648?st=1fd72ddc4e62cf3e77bc0edf315706e3

• Thanksgiving Emergent Reader Activity: (free) https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Story-of-Thanksgiving-An-Emergent-Reader-400724?st=f00156297d2371dac67f52ea76a447bb 

Activity:

1. Make a KWL (know, want to know, learn) chart about holidays. 

2. Use the Brain Pop link above to watch the video on holidays. (There are multiple videos on holidays in Brain Pop that can be viewed for this lesson. 

3. Complete the Thanksgiving Emergent Reader Activity. 

4. Complete the My Holidays Traditions Worksheet. 

5. Complete the KWL chart.

Standard:  

• K.4.2: I can find land on a map or globe. I can find water on a map or globe. I can find places on maps. 

Materials:  

•    Play Doh (blue and green)

•    Plastic sheet protector

•    Earth map: Map Template

•   Worksheet: Animals: Land and Water 

Activity:

1. Identify land and water:

2.   Explain that the map is a picture of the earth. Some parts are land, and some parts are water.

3.   Point to the parts of the earth that are water. Guide the student in covering that area up with      blue play doh.

4.  Point to the parts of the earth that are land. Guide the student in covering that area up with green play doh.

5.  Ask the student to point to the land. Ask the student to point to the water.

6. Animals: Land or Water?

7. Discuss different things that are on land. Discuss different things in water.

Standard:  

• K.4.3: I can tell you what traffic symbols mean. I can tell you what map symbols mean. 

Materials:  

•    Youtube video: Runaway Signs

•        Craft supplies: paint (red, yellow, green), Paint brush, Egg carton

•      Worksheet:   Shapes and Signals

•        Online activity: Traffic Sign Match 

Activity:

1.  Watch the Youtube video of the book Runaway Signs by Joan Hub and Alison Farrel.

2.  Tell your student that road signs are important because they are there to keep people safe.    Road signs help people follow the rules of the road.

3.  Explain that road signs come in different shapes. Cut out the shapes. The student will match the signs to the shapes on the Signs and Shapes worksheet.

4. Explain that road signs can mean different things. Some road signs are to stop people from doing something (prohibition), some to get people’s attention, or some to share information about something. Open up the live worksheet, Traffic Sign Match, and talk about the different road signs. The student will try to match them in the correct category.

5. Cut out the egg carton so that there are just three sections together like a traffic light. Guide the student in painting the egg carton the colors of a traffic light (green, yellow, red). 

6. Discuss what the different colors mean.

Optional activity: Play red light/green light with your student.