(15-20 minutes)

OBJECTIVE
Students work together to match community helpers (policeman, bus driver, garbage man, etc.) to the tools they use to do their jobs (police badge, garbage can, school bus, etc.).

MATERIALS
Match Community Helpers handout (contains Helpers and Tools cards)

GET READY

• Duplicate the Helpers and Tools cards onto card stock.
• Cut the cards so that you have 10 Community Helper cards and 10 Tool cards.

INSTRUCTIONS

• Hold up each card and say aloud what the picture shows: "gavel," "fire fighter," etc. Have your students repeat after you.
• As you hold up and name the cards, ask the children what each worker does and how the tools are used: "What does a judge do?" "What do you do with the badge?"
• Hand one card to each student.
• Each child will seek the student with the card that matches his/hers.
• Encourage the children to talk out loud to each other about mismatches, as they look for their matches: "No, the bus driver doesn't use the garbage can."
• When all the matches are made, ask the pairs to show and explain their matches: "The fire fighter uses the fire hose to put out fires."

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

• You had to cooperate to match the cards. Was it difficult to work together?
• How can you make the jobs of the community helpers easier? What can you do to help the bus driver? the garbage worker? the police officer? etc.
• What do you do to be a community helper?
• Is there anything else you can do to be a community helper?

MORE!
Have your students look for pictures in the newspaper that show community helpers.

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