# Lesson 193: My community poster

🟡 SOCIAL STUDIES (40 Lessons) • 🟠 E. Projects

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## Objective

I can tell what a community is and make a simple community poster that shows local places and helpers with pictures and labels.

## Materials

- Plain paper or light card for the community poster
- Crayons or colored pencils
- Optional: scissors and glue for picture cut-outs
- Notebook page for planning and short labels

## Mini-lesson — What is a community poster?

A community is a place where people live, learn, work, and play together.

Places in a community

- Homes where families live.
- Schools where children learn.
- Parks where people play and relax.
- Shops where people buy things they need.

Helpers in a community

- Teachers help children learn at school.
- Police officers help keep people safe.
- Shop workers help people pay for food and items.
- Librarians help people find books and stories.

Posters show important ideas

- A poster uses pictures and labels to show an idea clearly.
- A community poster shows community places and helpers.
- Labels are short words, like "home" or "school", that tell what a picture is.

In this lesson, you will make a simple community poster with neat pictures, short labels, and at least one helper.

Picture strip: Simple community row

## Guided Practice — Plan your community poster

You will plan your community poster before you draw it on big paper.

1. On a notebook page, draw a small sketch of your poster. Show a row of places, like a home, a school, a park, and a shop.
2. Add at least one helper in your sketch. This could be a teacher, police officer, librarian, or shop worker.
3. Next to each place, write or trace a short label, such as "home", "school", "park", "shop", "library", or "police".
4. Check that your sketch has at least three places and clear labels.
5. Show your sketch to an adult and explain each picture and label in one sentence.

Tracing Pad
Lines
Trace
Pen

## Practice — Make and share your community poster

Use your plan to draw a full community poster and talk about it with an adult.

1. On big paper, draw your community row. Include at least three places from your plan, such as home, school, park, shop, and library.
2. Add at least one community helper in your picture, such as a teacher in front of the school or a police officer near the road.
3. Write or trace a short label under each place. Keep labels neat and easy to read.
4. Color your poster carefully. Use colors that match the places, like green for grass and blue for the sky.
5. Show your poster to an adult. Point to each place and helper and say one sentence, such as "This is our school." or "This is a police officer who helps keep people safe."

## Quick Check — My community poster

Answer each question about communities, places, helpers, and posters. These questions check simple ideas only.

1) What is a community?

A single toy on the floor. A place where people live, learn, work, and play. A cloud in the sky.
A community is a place where people live and do things together.

2) Which is a place in a community?

A school. The moon. A toy box under the bed.
Schools are important places in a community.

3) Which helper works at a school?

Lifeguard. Pilot. Teacher.
Teachers help children learn at school.

4) Who helps keep people safe in the community?

Musician. Police officer. Painter of pictures.
Police officers help keep people and places safe.

5) What is a poster?

A big page with pictures and words that show an idea. A tiny secret note. A story you only say in your head.
Posters use pictures and words to show an idea clearly.

6) Why do we put labels on a community poster?

To cover the drawings. To make the page heavier. To tell what each place or helper is.
Labels name the places and helpers on the poster.

7) Which picture would be good to put on a community poster?

A picture of a random fruit with no label. A picture of your local park with a label. A picture of a dragon from a dream.
Pictures of real local places with labels fit a community poster.

8) Which sentence talks about your community?

"My community has a school, a shop, and a park." "A dinosaur lives on my pillow." "The stars are far away."
This sentence names real places in a community.

9) What helps your community poster look neat?

Scribbles over every picture. Labels written too tiny to read. Clear drawings and labels in straight lines.
Neat drawings and clear labels make the poster easy to read.

10) What is one goal for this lesson?

To draw any picture with no meaning. To show places and helpers in my community on a poster. To learn the names of every city in the world.
The goal is to show your community with places and helpers.

## Assessment (parent/teacher)

Student can say in simple words what a community is. Student can name at least two places in their community. Student can name at least one community helper. Student created a poster with clear pictures and short labels. Student can explain one or two parts of their poster in a full sentence.

## Exit ticket (student)

😀 I can make and explain a community poster. 🙂 I know some ideas for a community poster, but I want more practice. 😅 Community posters still feel a bit tricky to me.

#### Next time I will practise…

Naming places in my community Adding clear labels to my drawings Talking about helpers in my community
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