Community Helpers: What is community? - William Rose School

MONDAY WEEK 5
Early Years Learn at Home Learning Tasks

Community Helpers: What is community?
 Parent/Carer Guide - Learning activities 
1 What is community?
 - A community is a group of people who live in the same place like a
 town or neighbourhood.
 - People live in different types of communities including in cities or
 suburbs or in the country
 Show the photos of different types of communities

2 Share song: Meet heroes in your neighbourhood
 Sesame Street: Heroes in Your Neighborhood Song | #CaringForEachOther - YouTube

3 Read aloud
 Tinyville Town Gets to Work!: Kids books read aloud by Books with Blue - YouTube

4 On your neighbourhood walk take a photo of three places in your local
 community / neighbourhood
 e.g. the park; shop; doctor; fire station; library

Cities have lots of people and large buildings.

Suburbs are
 outside the city
where people live
 in
neighbourhoods.

The country has lots of open
land. There are few buildings
and people live spread out.

TUESDAY WEEK 5
Early Years Learn at Home Learning Tasks

Community Helpers: Neighbourhood helpers
 Parent/Carer Guide - Learning activities 
1 There are many different community helpers who work in a
 neighbourhood, including postmen and postwomen who deliver our mail;
 garbage collectors who collect our rubbish and even reporters who
 sometimes work in our community to give the news.

2 Read aloud
 Clothesline Clues to Jobs People Do – YouTube

3 Deliver the mail song
 Mailman Preschool Song | Learn Colors & Shapes | Mooseclumps | Kids Learning
 Songs for Toddlers – YouTube
 Use the picture cards to find the same shapes/colours as in the song to
 deliver the correct mail to the correct letterbox

4 Cut attached letterbox picture cards. Sort your letterbox pictures by
 colour

5 Cut attached letter picture cards. Sort your letter pictures by colour

Red Yellow Blue
letterbox letterbox letterbox

WEDNESDAY WEEK 5
Early Years Learn at Home Learning Tasks

Community Helpers: Food helpers
 Parent/Carer Guide - Learning activities 
 1 In our community there is also food helpers, these are helpers who grow
 and prepare our food. This can include farmers, shop assistants, chefs
 and bakers.

 2 Read aloud
 Whose Hat is This? - YouTube

 Get creative and make a Chef’s hat using paper
 3 How to make a Chef's Hat with Paper - World Book Day - Pancake Day - Master Chef
 Fans – YouTube

 4 Help bake something in the kitchen e.g. cookies, bread, pizza
 - Find three items you will need (e.g. wooden spoon, bowl, ingredients)
 - Pour, stir or mix
 - Take a photo of your baking to share with your teacher
 - Indicate if it tasted yummy using your yes/no board

THURSDAY WEEK 5
Early Years Learn at Home Learning Tasks

Community Helpers: Safety Helpers
 Parent/Carer Guide - Learning activities 
 1 Safety helpers in our community like firefighters, police and paramedics
 work to keep us safe. These helpers are very important.

 2 Read aloud
 Whose Hands Are These? – YouTube

 3 Using the templates create your own police badge. Trace or write your
 name, paint or colour in your own design

 4 Trace two circles onto green paper and two circles onto red paper using
 a bowl or round object. Or use stencils provided. Cut them out and glue
 or tape back to straw or popsicle stick.

 5 Grab your police hat and badge, role play being a police officer.
 Hold up the "GO" sign, yell "GO," and run around then hold up the
 “STOP” sign and yell “STOP” when you want them to stop.

go

 stop

FRIDAY WEEK 5
Early Years Learn at Home Learning Tasks

Community Helpers: Health helpers
 Parent/Carer Guide - Learning activities 
 1 Health helpers is another group of community helpers who help keep us
 and our pets healthy. This includes doctors, nurses and dentists who help
 to keep us healthy and vets who look after our pets.

 2 Read aloud
 Career Day Read Aloud - YouTube

 3 Have some fun with music
 The Wiggles Nursery Rhymes | Counting Song | Dr Knickerbocker | Songs for Kids –
 YouTube
 The Wiggles - Say Aah at the Doctors (The Cartoon Wiggles) - YouTube

 4 Using the Band-Aid templates and picture of Bo the Bear. Match the
 colour Band-Aids and help fix Bo.

 5 Sensory activity: Using the tooth template practice brushing teeth
 (use an old toothbrush, tooth template, shaving cream; flour/water; white
 paint)

Help fix Bo the bear. Find and match the correct Band-Aid.

 green

 orange

Cute and paste onto Bo the Bear

 green

 orange