Community Helpers Thematic Unit

If you love teaching thematic units and want to include a community helpers unit in your classroom, then read on! Above you can see my theme center with a poster of community helpers, and activities, puzzles, hats, and books for the students to read. 

Here are some great mentor texts that you can read for Community Helpers! 

Here are some anchor charts with interactive notebooks that I use in my unit: What is a Community, Community Helpers and What is a Good Citizen? I love making my anchor charts interactive with post it notes! 

Here are some craftivities that I do for Career Day. Each student gets to write about what they want to be when they grow up and make a craftivity to hang in the hallway. They are super cute! 

Click here to see my Career Day writing craftivities.

Here is a craftivity for Officer Buckle and Gloria. Click here to see the resource. 

Here is a craftivity for Roxaboxen. Click here to see the resource. 

At the end of your thematic unit, you can have your students create a town or village that resembles Roxaboxen. You can use paper box lids and have your students bring in all kinds of recycled items for them to create their own town. Here are some items that I had my students bring in: paper towel rolls, toilet paper rolls, sticks, pebbles, egg cartons, feathers, pipe cleaners, construction paper. Here are some examples of my villages that we made: 

They turned out so cute and the students really LOVED making them! Click here to see my thematic unit on Community Helpers. It includes lesson plans with suggested mentor texts, anchor charts, interactive notebooks, writing craftivities and end of unit project! 

Hope you enjoy it!

Love, Kara