Community Helper Activities + Worksheets Pack

Description

The hands-on activities in this Community Helper Activities pack are perfect for literacy, math centers, and small-group teaching, while the printable worksheets can also be used for whole-class teaching. Color and black and white formats are included, where possible, to suit your individual printing needs. 

What’s included in this pack of Community Helper Activities?

Literacy

• Vocabulary Words
  Featuring community helpers and vehicles. Includes color posters, black and white printables for students to color, and cut and paste labeling worksheets.
• Alphabet Letter Matching Garbage
  Match the lowercase trash bags to the correct uppercase trash can. 
• Beginning Sounds Library
  Identify the beginning sound of the picture on each book then match it to the correct letter shelf.
• Mail Name Craft
  Students write their name on the envelope template then use the letter stamps to build their name.
• Build & Trace Sight Words
  Students read the sight word, trace the sight word with a dry erase marker, then build the word with magnetic letters or other letter manipulatives.
• I Spy Alphabet Detective
  Hide the letter cards around the classroom for students to find one by one. As they find them, the locate the letter on their I Spy activity mat and trace it on their Letter recording sheet.
• Write the Room
  Hide the community helper cards around the room or in a sensory bin. Then students record each one on the worksheets provided – by picture, by tracing the name, or by writing the name.
• Posters
  The posters include items that each of the community helper’s use and an accompanying worksheet for students to color in.
• Flipbook
  Create a small flipbook for each community helper that students can color in, cut, and staple together. Each book incorporates pictures and vocabulary words.

Math

• Number Sense Firefighters
  These activity mats ask students to identify the correct representations of the target number and cover them with a water splash.
• Number Recognition Firefighters
  Students read the number on the fire hydrant then cover the numbers that match with bingo chips.

Shapes, Colors & Patterns

• 2D Shapes Bandages Vet
  Match the shape bandages to the shapes on the injured bear.
• Paint Splat Counting
  Read the sentence and add the correct number of paint splats or bingo chips to the paint palette.
• Construction Worker Patterns
  Continue the traffic cone patterns using the colored tokens provided, Includes AB, AAB, ABB, and ABC patterns.
• Dump Truck Color Matching
  Match the colored loads or other colored items to the same colored dump truck.

Sorting & Matching

• Sorting Kits
  Sort the items according to whether they belong in the toolbox or the medical kit.
• Community Helpers Sorting
  Sort the items according to which community helper would use them. Features a doctor, firefighter, construction worker, vet, librarian, garbage collector, mail carrier, police officer, dentist, and grocer.

Fine Motor Skills

• Cutting Activity Cards
  Cut along the dashed lines to each community helper vehicle.
• Tracing Activity Strips
  Trace along the dashed lines from each community helper to their vehicle.
• Police Car Craft
  Students create a police car by coloring and cutting out each piece and assembling according to the instruction poster. 
• Fire Truck Craft
  Students create a fire truck by coloring and cutting out each piece and assembling according to the instruction poster.

Oral Language

• Community Helper Puppets
  Cut out each community helper and glue them to craft sticks. Great for storytelling, imaginary play, and developing oral language.

Plus:

• Worksheets
  Including line tracing, counting items to 10, coloring, identifying which doesn’t belong, sorting, and more.
• Color By Number
  Color the pictures by using the number key code.

This Community Helper Activities Pack is perfect for the following learning settings:

⭐ As part of your morning work at any time of the school year

⭐ As literacy or math center activities during a unit on community helpers

⭐ With small groups of students with a particular focus, e.g. matching uppercase to lowercase letters

How to prepare this Community Helper Activities Pack?

✂️ Simply print and laminate each component, if desired. 

✂️ Both color and black and white formats are included, where possible, to suit your individual printing needs.

Suggested materials:

✏️ Coloring materials

✏️ Scissors

✏️ Glue
✏️ Clothespins
✏️ Dry erase markers

✏️ Bingo/Dot markers

✏️ Bingo chips

✏️ Small manipulatives of different colors, e.g. pom poms, Unifix cubes, etc.

✏️ Magnetic letters

✏️ Craft sticks