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Society and classrooms both require special helpers to keep things running smoothly. In this lesson, students will explore the people that help their community operate and take on some special jobs of their own to help in their classroom.

Community and Classroom Helpers

An interesting lesson about our very special community helpers. Teach your students how important each job is for our safety and health. Encourage them to think about what they would like to be when they grow up.

Community Helpers: Their Roles and Tools

Who is who in your school community? In this lesson, students will learn about the people who work at their school and how everyone helps each other to keep the school running safely.

Helpers in Our School Community

This lesson is about Community Heroes. It describes what community heroes do. It gives your students a good idea of what makes community heroes special.

Heroes in Our Community

This social studies lesson gets students learning all about their communities. After reading an engaging book, students make their own community pictures.

What's in Your Community?

Service can bring out the best in people and communities. In this lesson, students discuss what it means to serve and explore ways that they would like to support their school and community with service work.

Service for Our School Community

Your students will be mesmerized with models after this engaging and hands on lesson that gets students up and moving as they explore their community!

Make a Model of Your Community

In this lesson, students will develop an understanding of communities and will learn how to locate their communities on a map.

My Community and I

From teachers to farmers, many people and things together comprise a community. In this social studies lesson, students will identify and illustrate their dream community by making a pop-up card.

Pop-Up Communities

In this lesson, students will discuss what it means to care for others, practice heartfulness and create a kindness bear puppet.

Caring for Our Classroom Community

In this lesson students, learn how to listen and practice community-building skills using the circle process. This lesson helps build community and establish norms for how students communicate with each other.

Learning How to Listen

In this lesson, your students will learn about their roles as consumers and producers in a community through engaging activities and discussion.

Are You a Producer or a Consumer?

Discussing community with your class? Your students will practice their painting skills while making the places they love in their neighborhood. 

Neighborhood Paintings

In this lesson, students will learn the importance of nonviolent communication and listening to others in order to have a more supportive community.

Listening to What Matters

The world is full or signs and symbols! This lesson will allow your students to explore and understand signs and symbols in their community. 

Signs and Symbols Scavenger Hunt

In this lesson, students will discuss compassion, hear from a local nonprofit about their compassionate work in the community, and design a compassion sculpture made mostly out of recycled materials.

The Compassionate Classroom

Build community and teach students that opinions matter with this activity that includes survey interviews and a letter to the teacher.

Dear Teacher: Opinion Letters

Your ELs will analyze CLOZE sentences to understand community vocabulary. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to be used prior to the Urban, Suburban, or Rural lesson.

Urban, Suburban, and Rural Places

What are the tools of mindfulness and building community that support greater ease and connection? In this lesson, students will reflect on the mindfulness and social emotional learning tools they have learned through song and sculpting. 

Reflection on Mindfulness and SEL Tools

Our community relies on different kinds of resources to operate successfully. In this lesson, your students will learn how capital, human, and natural resources are all important for the functioning of a productive society.

3 Types Of Resources

In this lesson, students will reflect on what they have learned, connected to mindfulness and living in a caring community, and will write a letter to a future student to encourage them in their learning, as well.

Write, Draw, Reflect

In this lesson, students will hear the story *Drawn Together* and create a Diversity Board. They will consider how appreciating each other's differences in school supports relationships and community.

Drawn Together

What's the difference? In this lesson, your students will learn to describe what living in an urban, rural, and a suburban area is like.

Different Communities

Students will explore self-esteem through the book *I Like Myself* by Karen Beaumont. They will write secret kindness notes to others and to themselves, and reflect on how self-esteem can support connection with oneself and the community. 

I Like Myself

In this lesson, students will hear the story *Lovely* and work in small groups to create a book or a symbol of appreciation for others' differences. Students will consider how appreciating differences supports community and relationships.

Appreciating Diversity and Differences

On some level, all humans want to feel peace and to feel loved. In this lesson, students will practice sending peaceful thoughts to themselves and others and discuss how these practices can support peace in their lives and community. 

We Are Peacemakers

Do your kids need a breather? In this lesson, students will learn the circle process and help write guidelines for community building and SEL instruction. Students will learn the practice of belly breathing to help self-soothe, calm and focus.

Belly Breathing To Calm, Focus and De-Stress

Words can uplift others, but they can also cause harm. In this lesson, students will hear the story *Desmond and the Very Mean Word*, and they'll discuss the power of positive and negative words in friendships, school, and community.

The Power of Words

In this social skills lesson plan, students will get to practice identifying how to be a friend. Friendship is an important social skill for kindergarten students to master as they begin to form a new community of peers at school.

Friends Are Fun!

Kindergarten ELs will love practicing their writing skills as they learn all about homes around the world in this fun hands-on lesson plan! It can be used on its own or as support for the What's in Your Community? lesson plan.

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