Lesson 193: My community poster

🟡 SOCIAL STUDIES (40 Lessons) • 🟠 E. Projects

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Objective

I can tell what a community is and make a simple community poster that shows local places and helpers with pictures and labels.

Materials

Mini-lesson — What is a community poster?

A community is a place where people live, learn, work, and play together.

Places in a community

  • Homes where families live.
  • Schools where children learn.
  • Parks where people play and relax.
  • Shops where people buy things they need.

Helpers in a community

  • Teachers help children learn at school.
  • Police officers help keep people safe.
  • Shop workers help people pay for food and items.
  • Librarians help people find books and stories.

Posters show important ideas

  • A poster uses pictures and labels to show an idea clearly.
  • A community poster shows community places and helpers.
  • Labels are short words, like "home" or "school", that tell what a picture is.

In this lesson, you will make a simple community poster with neat pictures, short labels, and at least one helper.

Picture strip: Simple community row

Guided Practice — Plan your community poster

You will plan your community poster before you draw it on big paper.

  1. On a notebook page, draw a small sketch of your poster. Show a row of places, like a home, a school, a park, and a shop.
  2. Add at least one helper in your sketch. This could be a teacher, police officer, librarian, or shop worker.
  3. Next to each place, write or trace a short label, such as "home", "school", "park", "shop", "library", or "police".
  4. Check that your sketch has at least three places and clear labels.
  5. Show your sketch to an adult and explain each picture and label in one sentence.
Tracing Pad
Tracing snapshot for print
Tip: Say a full sentence as you trace, such as "My community has a school and a park."

Practice — Make and share your community poster

Use your plan to draw a full community poster and talk about it with an adult.

  1. On big paper, draw your community row. Include at least three places from your plan, such as home, school, park, shop, and library.
  2. Add at least one community helper in your picture, such as a teacher in front of the school or a police officer near the road.
  3. Write or trace a short label under each place. Keep labels neat and easy to read.
  4. Color your poster carefully. Use colors that match the places, like green for grass and blue for the sky.
  5. Show your poster to an adult. Point to each place and helper and say one sentence, such as "This is our school." or "This is a police officer who helps keep people safe."

Quick Check — My community poster

Answer each question about communities, places, helpers, and posters. These questions check simple ideas only.

1) What is a community?

A community is a place where people live and do things together.

2) Which is a place in a community?

Schools are important places in a community.

3) Which helper works at a school?

Teachers help children learn at school.

4) Who helps keep people safe in the community?

Police officers help keep people and places safe.

5) What is a poster?

Posters use pictures and words to show an idea clearly.

6) Why do we put labels on a community poster?

Labels name the places and helpers on the poster.

7) Which picture would be good to put on a community poster?

Pictures of real local places with labels fit a community poster.

8) Which sentence talks about your community?

This sentence names real places in a community.

9) What helps your community poster look neat?

Neat drawings and clear labels make the poster easy to read.

10) What is one goal for this lesson?

The goal is to show your community with places and helpers.

Assessment (parent/teacher)

Exit ticket (student)

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