Rational

Because students come to Kindergarten ready to expand their world beyond their homes to
larger neighborhoods and communities students need to participate in this unit. While
exploring the world around them students will learn the importance of a community and how
people are able to help their community. Students will also be able 4 to gain the concept that
they themselves are community helpers and can help the people around them. By learning
about community helpers, students will be able to recognize the importance of how a
community works and what it takes to be part of a community. Students will explore different
community helpers and the tools they use to help other members of the community. Students
will also have a chance to explore different types of community helpers and what they may
want to do when they are older. The students participating in this lesson will plan and follow
through on a service project to help their own community.

As you see your child has begun to explore their environment around them and as a class we
will begin a unit on community.

community helpers

As a class, we will list multiple community helpers and learn about what people do in our
community to help keep us safe