# Lesson 171: Our community helpers

🟡 SOCIAL STUDIES (40 Lessons) • 🔵 B. My School and Community

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## Objective

I can name some helpers in my community and talk about how they help us in daily life.

## Materials

- Paper for a simple "Community helpers" wheel or chart
- Pencils, crayons, or markers
- Optional: pictures of helpers from your own community

## Mini-lesson — Who helps in our community?

A community is the place where we live, learn, and play. Many helpers work in our community.

Some community helpers

- Doctor — helps people when they are sick or hurt.
- Nurse — helps care for people's health.
- Driver — drives buses or other vehicles safely.
- Shop worker — helps us buy food and things we need.
- Builder — helps make homes, schools, and roads.
- Farmer — grows food for people to eat.

Kind sentences we can use

- "Thank you for helping our community."
- "Your job helps people in daily life."
- "Many helpers work together to keep us safe and well."

We do not say that one helper is better than another. We show respect to all people who help.

Picture strip: Community helpers circle

## Guided Practice — Community helpers wheel

You will make a simple "Community helpers" wheel to show people who help in your area.

1. Draw a big circle. Divide it into four sections like a pizza.
2. At the top, write: "Community helpers".
3. In each section, draw one helper (for example, doctor, driver, shop worker, builder, farmer).
4. Under each picture, write or trace a short helper word such as "doc", "drive", "shop", or "build".
5. Practise reading your wheel aloud with an adult: "This helper ..."

Tracing Pad
Lines
Trace
Pen

## Practice — Spot the helpers

Think about the helpers you see in your own community. Talk about how they help you and others.

1. With an adult, name helpers you have seen nearby (for example, driver, shop worker, doctor, farmer).
2. For each helper, say one thing they do that helps people.
3. Practise a kind sentence you could say, such as "Thank you for helping us."
4. On your wheel or chart, draw a small heart or star near a helper you would like to thank.
5. Tell an adult which helper you would like to learn more about.

## Quick Check — Our community helpers

Answer each question about helpers, respect, and kind choices. These questions do not rank jobs. They talk about kind and fair ways to act.

1) What is true about many helpers?

Only some helpers matter. Many helpers keep the community running. Only helpers in big trucks count.
Many different jobs help our daily life.

2) What does a doctor help with?

People's health and bodies. Fixing roads and houses. Driving the school bus.
Doctors help when people are sick or hurt.

3) A driver helps by...

Throwing things on the road. Making roads more busy on purpose. Taking people or goods safely from place to place.
Drivers help people and goods move safely.

4) How can you show respect to a shop worker?

Shout and leave a mess. Wait calmly, say "please" and "thank you". Hide things on the wrong shelf.
Polite words and calm bodies show respect.

5) What is one way a farmer helps?

Grows food for people to eat. Uses all the water for fun. Hides all the seeds.
Farmers grow food that we need.

6) Your family visits a clinic. How can you talk to helpers there?

Yell and run around. Push other people in line. Use a quiet voice and say "thank you".
Quiet, kind voices help everyone feel safe.

7) Someone says, "Only helpers in cars are important." What is a kind thought?

Only one type of helper matters. Many helpers matter, not just one type. Some helpers are not real work.
We remember that different helpers are all important.

8) How can you thank a community helper?

Say "thank you for helping us". Call them names. Laugh when they work.
Thanking people shows we notice their work.

9) You see a worker fixing a road. What is a safe choice?

Play on the tools. Run into the work area. Stay on the path and watch from far away.
Staying back keeps workers and children safe.

10) Why is it good to learn about community helpers?

So we can say who is the best. So we can show respect and say "thank you". So we can make fun of some jobs.
Knowing how people help us makes it easier to choose kindness.

## Assessment (parent/teacher)

Student can name at least three helpers in their community. Student can say one way each helper supports daily life. Student uses kind, respectful language about helpers. Student understands that many different helpers keep the community running.

## Exit ticket (student)

😀 I can talk about helpers in my community. 🙂 I know some helpers but want more practice. 😅 Talking about helpers still feels a bit tricky.

#### Next time I will practise…

Saying "thank you" to helpers Naming what different helpers do Showing respect to helpers I see
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