A 5-day lesson plan designed to help children discover their local community, helpers, and neighbourliness. Features community helper guests, neighbourhood walks, 3D shape math, and phonics activities.
What children learn
- Identify features of neighbourhoods and compare how neighbourhoods are similar or different.
- Describe ways to greet, befriend, and interact politely with neighbours.
- Recognise how noise and other behaviour can affect neighbours.
- Explain how community helpers and local members contribute to a neighbourhood.
- Observe the school neighbourhood and suggest ways to keep it clean and beautiful.
Key activities
- Exploring Our Neighbourhood and Neighbours through discussion and collage
- Discovering Neighbourliness with puppet greetings and a neighbour-friend drawing
- Grocery Store Visit dramatic play
- Being Considerate Neighbours scenario discussion and poster design
- Discovering Our Contribution through community-helper guests and collage
- School Neighbourhood Walk followed by comparing and revising neighbourhood artwork
You’ll need
neighbourhood pictures and visual cues, community-helper picture cards, paper and chart paper, colourful paper, pencils, crayons and markers, magazines, glue, scissors, dramatic-play shop items
Structure: 5 days; each day: Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, Warm-up, Social Studies/Science, Creative Learning, English, Maths