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Helpers and Community Services

Kindergartners connect community helpers to the services they give everyone (fire safety, health care, mail, libraries, trash pickup), learn who the people in authority are at school and in the community and how they keep us safe, and find service buildings on a picture map using position words.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 40 minutes
  • Helpers, authority and maps: 5 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, label a picture, match pairs, sort into groups and true or false
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What learners will discover

  • Match community helpers to the services they provide to everyone in the community.
  • Identify people in authority, such as a principal, a crossing guard or a lifeguard, and explain how they keep people safe.
  • Find community service buildings on a picture map using words like next to, between, left and right.

Lessons

  1. Services for everyone 4 steps2 practiceabout 13 min
  2. People in authority 4 steps3 practiceabout 12 min
  3. A map of Maple Creek 4 steps2 practiceabout 15 min
  4. Helpers, authority and maps 5 questions at the end

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