Lesson #9

Monday December 3rd

Grade: 1/2 Lesson Title: School Community Lesson Duration: 30 minutes

Overview of lesson

Throughout this lesson, the students will compare their family members roles and responsibilities to that of the
people in the school. The students will also be thinking of all the people around the school and how they help
and contribute to making the school community a great place. The students will then pick one person to draw
and write about and while doing this they will be thinking and writing about how this person is a school helper
and what they do to help enrich the schools community.

Alberta Program of Study:

GLO /GLE SLO/SLE

GLO 1: SLO 1.1.1 value self and others as unique

- Students will demonstrate an
understanding and appreciation of how
identity and self-esteem are enhanced by
their sense of belonging in their world and
how active members in a community
contribute to the well-being, growth and
vitality of their groups and communities.
individuals in relation to their world:
 appreciate how belonging to groups and
communities enriches an individual’s identity
SLO 1.1.2 value the groups and communities to
which they belong:
 demonstrate a willingness to share and
cooperate with others
 appreciate how their actions might affect
other people and how the actions of others
might affect them
SLO 1.1.3 examine how they belong and are
connected to their world by exploring and
reflecting upon the following questions for
inquiry:
 What are our responsibilities and rights at
home, at school, in groups and in
communities?

SLO1.1.4 determine what makes their

communities thrive by exploring and reflecting
upon the following questions for inquiry:
 in what ways do people help one another at
home, at school and in groups to ensure the
vitality of their community?
 How do our actions and decisions contribute
to the well-being of groups and communities?

Critical Questions
Lesson Inquiry Question: How is our school like a community?

Lesson Guiding Questions:

1. Who is a part of our school?

2. How our people in the school like people in our family in regards to roles and responsibilities?
3. Who is a helper in our school and what do they do?

Learning Objectives

Students will…

1. Be able to identify and appreciate people within the school.

2. Be able to identify people in the school and their roles that help to enhance our school community.
3. Be able to recognized and understand that they have a role in our schools community.

Assessment

Formative:
 Class discussion
 Think/pair/share

Summative Assessment: Handout

Learning Resources

Resource #1: SMART board lesson

Resource #2: Handout

Material and Equipment

 SMART board
 SMART board markers
 School helper handout
 Pencils
 Pencil Crayons

Lesson Procedures

Introduction ( 5 min.):

Ask the students what we have been learning about for the past few weeks in socials (family)

Tell them that we are going to be switching gears and talking about our school community now.

Ask the students what they think a school community is and means.
Body ( 20 min.):

Begin with the SMART board lesson.

The students will be asked to come up when I draw their name from the name jar to answer questions on
the SMART board lesson.
 I will have questions that link school staff to their family members and ask the students how they
might be the same.

Explain the handout to the students.

 “On this handout you will think of someone who works in the school and draw a picture of them in
the box. You will also write who they are in this line here at the top. After you have drawn them
doing their job around the school, you will write about why you chose that person and how they
are a school helper.”
 When you are done everything, show me you are done and I will check it.
 When you are done, you may color your picture with PENCIL CRAYONS ONLY, and you can only
color when you are done everything else!

I will then ask the students to think of one person in the school who is staff. This could be anyone
and try to think of different people within the school so that everyone is not writing about the
same person. There is Mrs. Locke, Mr. Cunnings, Mrs. Reilings, Mrs. Brouwers, Mrs. Wolters, etc.

Ask the students to open their eyes when they think of someone and to come and get a handout
and begin working on it.

They will be given 20 minutes to work on this.

Closure (5 min.):

Ask the students to please hand in their work into the yellow social studies bin.

Ask the students to please clean up their area and join us on the carpet.

I will then ask if anyone would like to share who they wrote about and what they wrote for what that
person does to be a school helper.
 Rubric

Name: ______________

I used finger spaces and neat writing

C F S R

I used capitalization and punctuation

.
C F S R

I took my time and put effort into my drawing and writing

about the schools helper and stayed on task.

C F S R

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 Worksheet Template:

Name:

____________________________ is a helper in our school community!

____________________________ contributes to our school community

by ______________________________________________________

________________________________________________________.

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