What
Do Your Parents Do?
Grade
Level: Kindergarten
SOL's
Addressed: Social Studies K.5, Art ??, Reading/Language-Arts ??
Approximate
Time Needed: 30-35 minutes
Objectives:
~
The students will be able to name some of the different types of helpers
there are in their community.
~The students will also be able to write down how the different helpers
benefit or help the community.
Materials:
~The
book -Community Helpers from A to Z by Bobbie Kalman
~Blank sheets of paper for drawing
~Writing paper
~Crayons; colored pencils
~Pencils
Introduction:
~Asking
the students what their parents do for a living and where they work can
start the lesson. After making
a list of these names as a class, go over the jobs that each of these
positions carry and how they affect the community.
This will enable the lesson to become a little more personal and
interesting because they are speaking about their own parents and how it may
affect them personally.
Body:
~The
teacher will read the students the book Community Helpers from A to Z.
~The teacher and the students will discuss some different types of community
helpers from the book and list them on the board.
~The teacher and the students will come up with ways the helpers listed on
the board help the community.
~The teacher will then tell the students to select one community helper.
~The teacher will tell the students to draw a picture of the community
helper and write down at least one way in which that person helps the
community.
~The teacher will walk around the room and help students that need it.
Closure:
~ The teacher will share some of the
work that the children wrote and drew so that everyone gets a chance to hear
about different community helpers through those sentences.
Evaluation:
~
The teacher will be able to see if the students understand the lesson by
having several students share what they did with the class after everyone
else is finished. The teacher will also be able to see if the students
understand the lesson by walking around the room while the students are
working and seeing if they are doing it right.