unit lesson plan

1. Mrs. Handley’s Kindergarten Class
Community Helpers Unit

2. Analyze the learners
My class consists of 21 students, 10 girls and 11 boys, ages five
and six. There are two students with IEP’s. My class includes one
Asian, two Hispanic, and four African-American students.

3. Objective
During this week long unit, my students will learn about
community helpers. We will do this by having class discussions
about the different types of community helpers, have a few
special guest (such as a police officer and fireman), read books
about community helpers, and hands on activities. At the end of
this unit I expect my students to be able to identify the various
community helpers we discuss with a 100% accuracy rate.

4. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Discussion: What
is a community?
All about :
Police Officers
All about:
Doctors/Nurses
All about:
Fire Fighters
All about:
Postal Workers
What types of
helpers are
there?
Special Guest:
Officer Ron
Read: Froggy Goes
To The Doctor by
Johnathan London
Special Guests:
Milton Fire Dept.
Watch: virtual
field trip to post
office (You-Tube)
Read: Franklin’s
Neighborhood by
Paulette
Bourgeois
Discussion: Web
Chart: How do
police officers
help?
Activity: make
paper doctors kit
and label tools; x-
ray paper craft
Activity: explore the
fire truck, hand-
print firemen
painting
Read: Millie Waits
for the Mail by
Alexander
Steffensmeier
Activity: Who am
I? Community
Helpers mini-
book
Activity: make
paper police hats,
Police car
patterns
Discussion: What
happened during a
doctors visit? Sick
visit v. well-check
Discussion: Fire
Safety
Activity: make
thank you cards
for community
helpers and
prepare to mail
them
Community
Helpers sight
words
Community
Helpers sight
words
Community Helpers
sight words
Community Helper
sight words
Community
Helpers sight
words

5. Community Helpers Unit Sight Words
Community Police officer Firefighter
Doctor Nurse Postal Worker
Helpers My Mailbox
Stamp Fire Truck Can

6. Use of Technology:
During this unit I will be utilizing the smart board to show our
You-Tube video and to show pictures of community helpers and
their tools. I will make use of the Internet to print off templets for
our hands-on activity sheets. I will also be reading three books
and using a wall word chart to display our community helpers
sight words.

7. Works Cited
Franklin’s Neighborhood by Paulette Bourgeois
Froggy Goes To The Doctor by Johnathan London
Millie Waits for the Mail by Alexander Steffensmeier
http://youtu.be/tGOE-qxRVZw