First grade community unit

Our class neighborhood project, completed by student groups. Great culminating activity.

Learning about community helpers is fun! Engage kids with these 15 awesome community helpers books. The are perfect read alouds for school or home!

We are so reliant on community helpers to assist us during this pandemic. Here's how I teach about Community Helpers in my first grade class.

Teach 1st or 2nd grade communities with ease with these common core social studies lesson plans. Curriculum includes civics lesson plans, rural, urban, and suburban communities, goods and services, nonrenewable resources vs renewable resources, community helpers activities and community places crafts.

Community Helpers Write and Color the Room is the perfect addition to your community helper unit. This printable is great for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students.

Urban, rural, and suburban community class project in a 2nd grade classroom. Every student made at least one part of each community which were then cut out and placed on poster board.

So, probably my last community project for a while. After this cute Building a Community foldable & packet, it'll be time to move on and work on some plant and animal science topics for a while. It's been fun gathering the information, and designing the templates for these cute community projects though! Hope you like them! If you want to pick yourself up a copy of the templates and get your students working on building their own communities, they're available (with some worksheets thrown in…

Graphic organizer used to teach the unit on Neighborhoods

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I finished up my communities min-unit with my class. I'm actually surprised with how much I enjoyed it. Ha! I'm a little ashamed t...

Community Helpers Anchor Chart

A kindergarten, first grade, and second grade teaching blog. I focus on writing, grammar, reading, and social studies.

I thought I'd share a couple of community activities we worked on a few weeks ago. My students REALLY enjoyed learning about communities this year. Of all the exciting things we learn about, I never dreamed learning about communities would have been so popular. We did an inferring activity with communities, which was a great way to integrate reading and social studies. I am all about integrating whenever and wherever possible! They provided the clues and their answers are written underneath…

Here's a look at what we did last week in pictures! Our reading story was Jan's New Home, so during social studies, we talked a lot about ...

community helpers bulletin board

Here's a couple of our charts that we have made this week. We started learning long vowel words last week so I introduced the sneaky, silent...

Kindergarten Corps: Social Studies In Kindergarten: Maps and Communities - A clear explanation of a a week's worth of activities for maps. FREE download link to blackline masters.

Do you teach your students about community helpers? This fun whole group reading unit is perfect to teach about text to world. It is also a great theme to incorporate social studies topics such as needs and wants, goods and services, and different parts of a community. These five books are the anchor books I have chosen for the week. I also share four other non-fiction digital readers that I have made on Boom Learning. We begin the week by focusing on the story "On the Town" by Casely. This…

Wow. This has got to the biggest, most useful list of community helper books EVER!