Exploring My School & Local Community Grade 1

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  • Author : Solski, Ruth

Help your students familiarize themselves with their school, community, and the people involved in it.

2 reproducible booklets: My Local Community & Our Community Helpers, plus over 27 activities.

Divided into three sections:
1. Exploring the School Community
  • To explore the school environment to make the students more aware of the people who operate it and their location in the building.
2. My Local Community
  • This resource extends to the community they live in, the different people, the basic needs of the community, understanding that their community may be a town, city, or village. Students will use maps to locate buildings and places.
3. Our Community Helpers
  • To develop an awareness of the workers in a community.
  • To develop an understanding of the roles of various people in the neighborhood.
    • Introduction Includes:
    • Learning Expectations

    • Vocabulary Lists

    • Teacher Information

    • Preliminary Preparations for the Teacher

    Section One: Exploring the School Community

    • Provides four detailed lessons for the teacher and additional worksheets and activities.

    Lesson One

    Objective:

    • To explore the school environment to make the students more aware of the people who operate it and their location in the building.

    Lesson Two

    Objective:

    • To familiarize the students with the physical layout of the outside of a school.

    Lesson Three

    Objective:

    • To have the students develop safe and acceptable behavioral patterns

    Lesson Four

    Objective:

    • To involve the students in the making of a graph.

    Activities and Worksheets

    Our School Booklet Cover and Blank Page

    Worksheet 1 School Helpers

    Worksheet 2 School Things

    Worksheet 3 School Words

    Matching Activity 1 School Helper Words

    Matching Activity 2 School Word Matching

    * Skills: Word Recognition/Visual Discrimination

    (Color and cut out the pictures and word cards. Mount them on a sturdy backing and laminate. Store the cards in an envelope. Attach the instruction card to the envelope. The student will match the word pertaining to a school article correctly.)

    School Helper Reading Activity 1

    * Skill: Word Recognition, Sequencing Words to Make Sentences.

    School Helper Mathematics Activity 1 

    *Skill: Counting Objects by Ones, Recording Numerals


    Section Two: My Local Community

    • This resource extends to the community they live in, the different people, the basic needs of the community, understanding that their community may be a town, city, or village. Students will use maps to locate buildings and places.

    Lesson One

    Objective:

    • To introduce students to the aspects of community living.

    Lesson Two

    Objective:

    • To make students more aware of the different structures in which people live.


    Lesson Three

    Objective:

    • To familiarize students with the different types of structures found in the community, their shapes, sizes and functions.

    Lesson Four

    Objective:

    • To acquaint students with places that are used for recreation and enjoyment in a community.

    Lesson Five

    Objective:

    • To acquaint students with places that are used for recreation and enjoyment in a community.

    Lesson Six

    Objective:

    • To make the students aware of the importance of all the possible methods of transportation used in the local community.

    Activities and Worksheets

    Student Booklet – My Local Community

    Community Store Snip Art

    Community Store Word Cards

    Community Buildings Snip Art

    Community Buildings Word Cards

    Community Homes Snip Art

    Community Homes Word Cards

    Community Vehicles Snip Art

    Community Vehicles Word Cards

    Blank Instruction Cards

    Community Helpers - Word Recall; Match the Community Helper to its name

    Community Transportation- Word Recall; Match the Community Vehicles to Their Names

    Community Helpers - Word Recall; Match the Community Helper to its name

    Match the Tool to the Helper

    Where does each community helper work?

    Color the picture that doesn’t belong in each row.

    What sound does each community helper begin with?

    Which one is different? Circle and color it.

    Can you follow the pattern!

    Help the community helper get to his vehicle

    Mailing a Letter - Cut out the pictures. Paste them in the correct order.

    Fire! Fire! House on Fire! - Cut out the pictures. Paste them in the correct order.

    Section Three: Our Community Helpers

    • To develop an awareness of the workers in a community.

    • To develop an understanding of the roles of various people in the neighborhood

    This section covers the following four areas:

    Each area will be dealt with separately.

    1. People Who Maintain Our Community

    2. People Who Deliver Things in Our Community

    3. People Who Sell Us Things

    4. People Who Protect Our Neighborhood.

    Lessons Include:

    Lesson One

    Objectives:

    • To develop an awareness of the workers in a community.

    • To develop an understanding of the roles of various people in the neighborhood.

    Lesson Two

    Objective:

    • To develop an understanding and appreciation of the duties of police officers in the community.

    Lesson Three

    Objective:

    • To develop an appreciation for the role police officers play in the community.

    Lesson Four

    Objective:

    • To develop an awareness of the work and value of the firefighter.

    Lesson Five

    Objective:

    • To extend the students' knowledge about the special clothing worn by firefighters.

    • To appreciate the duties performed by firefighters.

    • To make students aware of the ways fires are fought.

    Lesson Six

    Objective:

    • To make students more aware of the causes of fires and how to prevent them.

    Activities:

    Booklet – Our Community Helpers

    The Police Officer – classifying objects

    The Police Officer - Word Study; Sequencing Letters to Make Words

    The Police Officer - Sequencing Words to Make Sentences

    The Police Officer - Word/Picture Matching

    What does the Firetruck carry?

    The Firefighter – classifying objects

    The Firefighter - Word Recall; Match the Word to the Picture

    The Firefighter - Word Recognition; Making Words

    The Firefighter - Seeing Relationships: Making Sentences About the Firefighter

    Ff Firefighter worksheet








    This book supports many of the fundamental concepts and learning outcomes from the curriculum for these provinces:
    • Alberta, Grade 1, Social Studies, Citizenship, Belonging and Connecting, 1.1 My World, Home, School, Community and 1.2 Moving Forward with the Past, My Family, My History and My Community;
    • British Columbia, Grade 2, Social Studies, Governance;
    • Ontario, Grade 1, Canada and World Connections, The Local Community.


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