Children explore jobs and community helpers through activities in cognition, literacy, numeracy, and creative learning. They build puppets, practice forming standing lines, explore size gradation, and create thank-you cards.
What children learn
- Recognise a range of jobs and community helpers and describe how their work supports daily life.
- Express appreciation for people who help at school and in the community.
- Recognise and form standing lines through playdough, water-pistol, and tracing activities.
- Identify, sort, and sequence objects as small, medium, or big.
Key activities
- Create a collage of people at work from newspapers and magazines.
- Match community-helper puzzles and make stick puppets for role-play.
- Complete a community-helper quiz and reveal-painted thank-you cards.
- Tour the school to observe and thank community helpers, followed by Show and Tell.
- Sort leaves and objects by size and build towers in a given size sequence.
You’ll need
Community-helper puppets and flashcards, newspapers and magazines, paper and chart paper, crayons and watercolours, glue sticks, playdough, assorted objects and leaves in three sizes, ice-cream sticks.
Structure: 5 days; each day includes a Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, gross-motor development, integrated cognition/literacy or fine-motor work, and numeracy.