Community Helpers

We did a great communities helper activity based on this great book, "This Plus That Life's Little Equations" by Amy Krause Rosenthal. The book has little equations in it such as," tall+coffee=grownup or small+bottle=baby". So to tweak it for community helpers I wrote up some equations like, "students+bus+driving= _______ (bus driver) or students+books+reading=____ (librarian/teacher) Then I had them come up with the descriptors and I had the equals part ________+ _______= firefighter. So they had to think about two words that would describe a firefighter. We went through a number of these, and then they had to think of their own equation. It had them thinking about community helpers in a different way, and after our flop of a brainstorming session, I actually think they are understanding what community helpers are. HAHA

Here is a link to the google doc if you want a copy.