Grade 1 community unit

Hi all - so I have a student teacher...and she is amazing!! As a result I have time...so I have been making the most of my time. First, I did my Long Range Plans: Comments? What do you think? I was planning to include the Core Competencies when I wrote lesson plans. Also - I would just print what they provided on the BC Curriculum website in PDF format as the first page. These two pages would follow for Social Studies. Next, I did an Inquiry Unit for Social Studies to match. It covers most…

Hello Everyone! Hope you're having a joyfilled day!! I wanted to share my "Me and My Community" social studies mini unit with you. If you are one of my kiddos reading this, have mom or dad print it off for you and get busy!! :) We've done many of these activities already, but it is still a great summer time filler! The unit contains 30 pages of poems, drawing and writing activities, anchor chart activities, a mini book for kids to make, citizenship, community workers, map skill activities…

Our Community Construction Project is causing a lot of excitement this week during first grade social studies. Before spring vacation, the class learned about the concepts of needs and wants within…

So, probably my last community project for a while. After this cute Building a Community foldable & packet, it'll be time to move on and work on some plant and animal science topics for a while. It's been fun gathering the information, and designing the templates for these cute community projects though! Hope you like them! If you want to pick yourself up a copy of the templates and get your students working on building their own communities, they're available (with some worksheets thrown in…

Learn 5 ways to create an engaging communities unit for your students. Teach them facts about their community and other communities! They will learn about types of communities, community helpers, services and buildings in their communities, and more!

Every time we have an engineering project my students are so engaged! During our community unit we studied our neighborhood then created models of our own houses. What a great way to make a community helper unit come to life! This project was perfect for Kindergarten and could be great in Grade 1!

Party hat craftivity for Martin Luther King Jr. Day

I am happy to be linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching's Five For Friday linky party! Here's a peek at my week! Our special read-aloud this week was The Recess Queen in honor of Pink Shirt Day (Anti-Bullying). We read the book and discussed what worked and what didn't work with the students in the story. We dug in deeper and realized that the bully's name changes throughout the story. She starts off being referred to as Mean Jean, then the friendly new girl calls her Jeanie Beanie, and then…

Hello Everyone! Hope you're having a joyfilled day!! I wanted to share my "Me and My Community" social studies mini unit with you. If you are one of my kiddos reading this, have mom or dad print it off for you and get busy!! :) We've done many of these activities already, but it is still a great summer time filler! The unit contains 30 pages of poems, drawing and writing activities, anchor chart activities, a mini book for kids to make, citizenship, community workers, map skill activities…

Explore these fun and informative ideas to build a strong classroom community in primary grades! From student jobs to team building activities, foster a sense of belonging in kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade. These classroom community lessons to build friendship, respect, and kindness will help you create a learning environment where students thrive. Grab the FREE classroom community activities and respect scenario role play task cards to get you started!