First graders at UMS have been studying a theme unit called Community Helpers over the past few weeks. We have been reading many books about different Community Helpers and listing the different community helpers in categories based on the ways they help the community (such as making a "healthy" category and listing doctors, nurses, vets, EMTs, a "safety" category and listing fire fighters and police, a "learning" category and listing teachers and librarians, etc). Students each interviewed an adult at home about their job, and we have been sharing these in class and discussing how each job helps the community and where they fit into our chart as well. Students each made a folder (we are calling them lap books) to contain the different things they are learning about community helpers throughout the unit including a list of vocabulary we have been using (our words are school, neighborhood, town, job, volunteer, community, contribute, clean, safe, pleasant).
As part of our unit we are meeting some of the different community helpers in our town. Today the two school officers from the Colchester Police Department came to our classroom to teach us about some of the important ways police officers help the community. Next Friday our class will take a walking field trip to the Burnham Memorial Library down the road to learn about libraries and librarians (family members please let me know if you would like to join us!) and we are hoping to have a visit with members of the Colchester Fire Department soon as well. Below you will see a few photos taken during our unit so far!
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