Community Analysis

We will be constructing sculptures, drawing pictures, playing games, reading text, creating posters, role-playing, taking a field trip, and having visitors. This is all in an effort to enhance our students overall-knowledge on how a community is beneficial to our overall wellbeing and society. It is my hope that they are able to demonstrate being a community helper both in and outside of school. We are very excited to begin this unit and learn about the community we live in. As projects are completed, work will be sent home, please ask them to express their understanding of the work to further enhance their overall knowledge and understanding of how a community operates, and functions of community helpers, including themselves.
A Doctor helps children when they are sick or hurt and, makes them feel better. Doctors will give you medicine to feel better or give you an X-ray if you have a broken bone, or even if you just need a checkup for school to see how healthy you are. Sometimes you need to get shots when you go to the doctor to help your immune system. Doctor’s exam your ears with a tool called an otoscope, and they generally wear a white coat. They listen to your heart with a stethoscope; they measure how tall you are, and how much you weight with a scale. Doctors are important in the community because they take care of us and keep us
Little critter has all these questions about moving from his old house to his new home? Some of his questions are, will he be able to bring his sandbox? What if he has to go to a new school that is full of bullies? What if his new next-door neighbors are big monsters? Getting to know your new neighbors might be scary, or what about new friends nearby? What if I have to go to a new school full of bullies and a mean teacher? When they got to the new house all of his friends were waiting for him in the front yard to help him unload all of his belongings. Eventually, Little Critter learns moving is not so bad after