COMMUNITY HELPERS
Community Helpers cover many groups of people who help in our neighborhoods and community. A community can be small with only a few buildings and homes or large with many buildings and homes. The people in the community help each other by offering goods and services. Come learn and have fun with these community helpers preschool activities.
Teacher Coloring Page Police Coloring Page Farmer Coloring Page Cowboy Coloring Page
Street Sweeper Coloring Page Plumber Coloring Page Doctor Coloring Page Dentist Coloring Page
Scientist Coloring Page Mason Coloring Page Baker Coloring Page
Post Man Coloring Page Firefighter Coloring Page Astronaut Coloring Page
LEARNING PACKETS
These learning packets contain early learning printables to use with your toddler or preschooler when studying about community helpers. These packets are intended for preschoolers.
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Letter match
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Letter fluency race
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Beginning Sound Match
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Beginning Sound Bingo
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Beginning Sound Walk the Room
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Ending Sound Pick and Color
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Beginning & Ending Sound Write
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CVC Scramble
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CVC Spin
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Spin & Read
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CVC Middle Vowel Sort
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Read, Write, Trace Sight Words
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Word Fluency Race (Sight Words, Color Words, # Words, CVC)
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Sight Word Game
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Vocab Word Tracing
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Sight Word Sentence Scramble
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Writing Prompts
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Reading, Vocabulary, Writing
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Eye-hand coordination
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Left to right tracking
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Fine motor control
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Perform fine motor tasks
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Use writing or drawing tools
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Counting
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One-to-one correspondence
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Classification
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Number recognition
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Set recognition and comparison
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Measurement (weight)
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Measurement (height)
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Patterning
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Fine motor
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Letter recognition
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Beginning sound recognition
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Language/dictation
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Self-expression
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Association
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Visual discrimination
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Phonological and phonemic awareness
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*Following directions
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Recommended Book List
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Word Wall {12 helpers: dentist, doctor, farmer, firefighter, police officer, mail carrier, teacher, construction worker, baker, judge, scientist, trash collector}
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My Community Helpers Mini Book
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Community Helper Tool Belt Craftivity and Template
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Helpers on the Road Craftivity and Template
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Printable Memory Game
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"Helpers in Our Town" Original Song
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Game Ideas: "Where's the Mail?" & "I'm Lost!"
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Math Center: Code 3 Clip It (matching numbers to tens frames)
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Code 3 Number Emergency Math Printable
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The Community Helper in Me Drawing Activity
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Community Help Matching (tools that helpers use)
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What Comes Next? (patterns)
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"How Much Trash?" Number Match
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I Can Help Too! (farm animal sorting)
Packet 1 - 5 courtesy of teacherspayteachers.com.
RAISING READERS
Our book recommendations are a collection of stories exploring community helpers. Please browse our bookclub selection for other book titles related to community helpers.
NEST.TV
Thanks to YouTube, we don't have to reinvent the wheel. These YouTube videos will engage your child as they continue to learn and explore community helpers.
30 minutes or less
Sesame Street: Bikes, Trains, Planes, and Cars!
30 minutes to 1 hour
Community Helpers | Finger Family
Best Collection of Rhymes on Professions
Five Little Firemen - Fire Truck
1 hour or more
Caitie's Classroom | Community Helpers
Community Helpers | Bob the Train
Here are a few activities for the whole family to enjoy while learning and exploring community helpers. Use these activities to point out different community helpers, how each community helper contributes to our world and the similarity/differences of each community helper.
Schedule a trip to the doctor so kids can experience what doctor's do.
Schedule a trip to the dentist so that kids can experience what dentist's do.
Take a bus ride or Q Line train ride to learn about what bus drivers do.
Go for a drive and point out different vehicles like garbage trucks, delivery trucks, emergency vehicles and police cars.
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