Community Helpers

First graders have finished our theme unit on Community Helpers! During this unit we learned the meaning of "community," and how people in the community do many different jobs to help each other and to keep the community a safe, healthy, and pleasant place to be! Students met police officers and fire fighters at school and did a walking field trip to meet librarians at the Burnham Library down the road. Students also interviewed someone at home about their job, then shared the interview in class, so that the class could learn about many more of the community helpers in our area. Finally students picked a job they think they might like to do when they grow up and wrote how the job would help their community. Students in our class made a "lapbook" (a folder that opens like a book and fits on their lap) to keep some of the projects they worked on during this unit and they will be bringing those home today and tomorrow. Our class also created an iMovie where the students recorded what job they would like to have when they grow up and how it would help the community! The iMovie has been posted to YouTube and can be seen there as well as through the link below.

Community Helpers iMovie

First graders have now moved on to a theme unit studying solids and liquids. More to come on that soon!