Name: Savannah Argenas

Date of Lesson: March 10, 2023

Primary Curriculum Area: Social Studies
Age: 3&4
Time and Duration of Lesson: 9:15-9:45 am (30 minutes)
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*Activity Name and Description: Helping Hands Activity- Children will use “Helping Hands” premade by me to differentiate
between each community helper and identify their role in the community. The hands will be cut out with photos of community
helpers on them and taped to popsicle sticks. There will be twelve of these: doctor, dentist, farmer, chef, lifeguard, firefighter,
crossing guard, teacher, ballerina, librarian, police officer, and garbage collector.

*Type of activity (check ONE)

□ Small Group □ Full Group □ Individual Activity

*Concept/topic to teach: Community Helpers, a social studies lesson on the different types of people who contribute to our
community and what their roles are.

*Rationale and Background (why you have chosen this activity for these children at this time; what are the children familiar with
or able to do in relation to this topic?):
This week at the preschool, the theme is community helpers. It is important to teach them about this so that they understand the
world around them and how things work. Some of these children will grow up to take on these roles, and all of them will interact
with them at one point or another. It is important for them to understand who makes up their community and the importance of
contributing to it. They will be familiar with the different helpers and be able to have an appreciation for their jobs and their help. It
will also give them an understanding of who to go to if they need help and who trusted adults are other than their parents.

*Learning Standards Addressed:

 Approaches to Learning Through Play: Organizing and Understanding Information: Memory: AL.2 PK. E Retain and recall
information presented over a short period of time
 Social Studies Thinking: How Government Works: Government Services: 5.3 PK.C Identify community workers through
their uniforms and equipment

*Lesson Objective:

1. By participating in this activity, children will: identify the different types of community helpers and their roles
Name: Savannah Argenas
Date of Lesson: March 10, 2023
Primary Curriculum Area: Social Studies
Age: 3&4
Time and Duration of Lesson: 9:15-9:45 am (30 minutes)
2. By participating in this activity, children will: gain an understanding of the importance of community helpers and why we
need them in society

*List of Materials and Resources: This lesson idea came from a book of preschool lesson plans that another supervising teacher
allowed me to use. It showed the hand activity, but I made it my own by adding the pictures to the hands and adding the popsicle
sticks as well as the intro and overall activity concept.
 Book: This is My Town by Mercer Mayer
 Construction paper
 Photos of community helpers
 Glue
 Scissors
 Tape
 Popsicle Sticks
 Note cards
 iPad (for filming)

Teaching Procedures
*How I will introduce the activity (how to begin so children will be interested and know what to do):
I will have them all sit on the carpet after morning meeting and let them know that I will be teaching them about community helpers.
I will then read them the book This is My Town by Mercer Mayer, which highlights the different types of community helpers and
what they do. This will engage them in the lesson.

*Step by step procedures (what to do and say step-by-step to provide the experiences that will teach children the concepts,
develop the skills, build the attitudes or dispositions that are described in the objectives):
1. After reading the story aloud to the class, I will begin to review the different community helpers they have been learning about by
holding up each Helping Hand and asking who they are and what they do. (Example: “Who is this?”, “Who knows what a doctor
does?”)
2. I will allow the students to tell me what each helper does.
3. If they get it correct, I will reiterate the answer, and if not, I will tell them the correct answer.
4. After all the helpers and their roles are reviewed, my supervising teacher would like to conduct the activity in small groups by
calling them over during center time.
5. I will sit at a table with two or three children at a time, with the Helping Hands spread out on the table. I will go through my
notecards (each with a community helper listed on them), and ask them a question one at a time (Example: “Who helps you when
Name: Savannah Argenas
Date of Lesson: March 10, 2023
Primary Curriculum Area: Social Studies
Age: 3&4
Time and Duration of Lesson: 9:15-9:45 am (30 minutes)
you are sick?”)
6. The children will apply what they know to grab the correct hand and “raise” their Helping Hand with the correct helper to match
the role I asked for.

*Closure (what you will do or say to reinforce/support what children have learned and help them make a transition to another
activity):
I will have each child do 2 or 3 Helping Hands and let them know they did a great job. I will tell them that they can return to their
centers and ask who wants to come participate next.

*Adaptations (for children who may need support):

For children who may need support, this activity can be done one on one if they are easily distracted or have better focus in a quiet
area. I could also spread out less Helping Hands for them to choose from when choosing the correct one to raise, so they do not
get overwhelmed.

*Adaptations (for children who may need challenged):

For a child who may need challenged, I could ask them a scenario that a community helper would tend to them to, in addition to
just their overall role. For example, instead of just asking “Who helps you when you are sick?” for a doctor, I could ask “If you were
riding your bike and broke your arm, which one of these people might you go see?”. This will help them get a better understanding
of a more specific scenario that a community helper might be a part of.

*Plan for Assessment (what to look for to identify if the objectives were met and how to document):
To know if objectives were met, I will assess if the children were able to identify community helpers by matching the correct helper
with the corresponding role. They should be able to tell me the role of the helper when given their title, and the title of the helper
when given a role. This could be documented using an anecdotal record, briefly describing each child’s behavior and success in
understanding the lesson.