Jacqueline Meditz Grade K

Social Studies- Community Helpers

Objective: How can we identify how community workers help us by identifying, comparing, and
contrasting the different tools that they use?
Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W2: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose
informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some
information about the topic.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.4: Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with
prompting and support, provide additional detail.

Assessments Used Throughout Vocabulary/Questio

Materials
Lesson n
Anchor chart with picture cut outs  Student responses Community, tools,
Smartboard  Teacher observation police officer,
“What Do You Do?” Poem Slideshow  Thumbs up for firefighter, doctor,
Community workers toy manipulatives understanding teacher, mail
Scissors & glue  Completed task carrier, dentist,
Differentiated worksheets veterinarian
Pencils & crayons

10 Engage: Turn and talk

minutes Students will be motivated during this lesson by listening to the Why is this
teachers recite the “What Do You Do?” poem slideshow that is community worker
displayed on the Smartboard. important to our
Teach and Talk community?
I Do:
Students will gather on the carpet. Teachers will prompt students to How can we
recall what community helpers are. Students’ attention will be called compare the tools
to the blank anchor chart displayed. Teachers will do a think aloud the different
while showing pictures and model how they know what community community helpers
helper it is. The pictures will be attached to the anchor chart. use?
10 We do: How are these two
minutes Students will be prompted to identify other community helpers based community helpers
on the tools. Students will engage in a class discussion with higher alike? How are they
order thinking questions about community workers. Student different?
responses will be added to the anchor chart.
You Do …
20 Differentiated
minutes Group Differentiated Activity

Blueberry Students will pick one community helper to write

(Highest) about. They will draw a picture of the helper, write
the tools that worker uses, and write about what Are there any other
they do for the community. Students are community workers
encouraged to use the anchor chart and to sound out you can think of?
words when writing.
 Students will pick one community helper to write Why is the
Kiwi (High) about. They will draw a picture of the helper and community worker
write the tools that worker uses. Students are you choose
encouraged to use the anchor chart and to sound out important to our
words when writing. community?

Banana Students will complete a sorting activity worksheet.

Can you elaborate
(Middle) The teacher will ask students to identify the tools
on the reason why
and the community helper that would use them.
the community
*Guided by Students will cut and glue pictures on a chart under
helper uses those
Ms. Meditz the correct community helper.
tools?

Apple Students will be presented with different toy

(Low/ENL) manipulatives. The teacher will ask students to
identify the community workers in front of them
*Guided by and what tools they would use. They will complete
Mrs. a community helper sorting activity worksheet that
Panzarino matches the manipulatives in front of them.
Students will cut and glue pictures of the tools on
the chart under the correct community helper who
uses it.

Accommodations:
Special Education Accommodations:
Students with IEPs are placed within these groups based on formative
and summative assessments, i.e. iReady scores, observations,
baseline, etc.

ENL Accommodations:
ENL student is placed within these groups based on their command
of English.

ENL Station:
Student can go to the station resource for guidance, i.e. visuals,
labels, etc.
5 minutes Share: What different tools
Students gather in the meeting area. One child from each group will do community
be chosen to share his or her work in the “share chair”. workers use? Why
do they use them?
How do these
community workers
help us?