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As promised, here are a few more community helper activities to round out your studies.

If there is something specific you're looking for, that I didn't cover, feel free to shoot me an e-mail and I'll see what I can do.diane@teachwithme.com

I have so enjoyed designing community helper - themed items.

An interesting and fun way to study community helpers is to compare and contrast them. 

An easy way to do this, is by using a Venn diagram.

I've made 11 different Venns comparing 22 community helpers, and included a blank template if students want to choose 2 others that are not provided.

To explain and demonstrate the lesson, put one up on your white board and do as a whole group.

Afterwards, children partner up and choose a Venn diagram that they will fill in together. 

Each child does their "different" half of the diagram, and then they take turns writing the similarities in the "same" section of the Venn diagram.

Children share their diagrams with the class.  Display them in the hall, on a bulletin board, or collate them into a class booklet.

Click on the link to view/download the Community Helpers Venn Diagram packet. 

I've also designed a picture and word card sorting activity entitled "Tools of the Trade." 

Children place the appropriate "tools of the trade" picture cards that are associated with a community helper, on a sorting mat. 

There are 85 picture cards to choose from, 10 sorting mats + community helper word cards.

Click on the link to view/download Community Helpers' Tools of the Trade activity packet.

Another fun game is "Name That Community Helper."  The teacher or students read 19 clue cards. The first child with the correct answer, writes it on the card.

There are also more than enough pictures of community helpers, to make a class-set of "Popsicle-stick puppets."  (Teachers laminate, cut out and glue a community helper to a Popsicle stick.)

Before the game begins, teachers pass the community helper "Popsicle puppets" to their students.

Children hold up their community helper puppet when the appropriate clue card is read.

Click on the link to view/download the Name That Community Helper packet.

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