Helpers in my Community

by Bobbie Kalman

This book introduces children to the important people who make our communities cleaner, safer, and better. Action shots feature people working in construction, at schools, in hospitals, fighting fires, doing police work, and volunteering. An activity asks children what kinds of things they could do to volunteer in their own communities.

Genres: Picture Books

24 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2013

About the author

Bobbie Kalman is a Hungarian-born children's author and publisher known for educational nonfiction books widely used in schools and libraries. After fleeing Hungary with her family during the 1956 Revolution, she later settled in North America. With backgrounds in English, psychology, and education, she wrote more than 800 books, including “Refugee Child” and several popular curriculum-based series.

Reviews

[Denise · Rating 3 out of 5]

1. Not applicable
2. PreK-K
3. This picture book shows children different and important jobs people have within their community that . It shows pictures of firefighters, nurses, vetenarians, and other positions that students might have seen or have another connection with.
4. It is great to helps children make connections with their environment. It helps them see how they can relate their outside world within school. It is also very useful to get young students learn how people can help keep their community safe.
5. -To make connections: How school can be their own community and each one of them can make their classroom a clean, safe, and welcoming community.
-Discuss other ways a person can help their community.

[Brenda Barrino]

Book Title: Helpers in My Community by Bobbie Kalman
Description: Introduces children to the important people who make our community safer, cleaner, and better.
Teach: W.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure. Great book to integrate social studies & literacy!
a. Discussion about community helpers
b. Introduce book, read, and review. Review facts/opinions. (All the details provided in the book are true facts)
c. Students will choose their favorite community helper and “think-pair-share” what they would like to share about that community helper.
d. Students will share facts and once approved by teacher, they will write their own informational book about their one favorite community helper.
Expected outcome: Students will be able to use prior knowledge from social studies and write an informational text about their favorite community helper, while providing accurate facts.

[Katelyn Krigbaum]

In the book Helpers in My Community it describes the roles of everyone that makes a community safe, healthy and better in some way. It teaches children how important these people are and why these people are so important. This book is also interactive in a way that it asks the reader how they can or will help out their community. In addition, the illustrations are real life snap shot of people working in those important jobs. This is a great way for children to recognize who they are and make connections to those they see in their own community.

[Ellie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book introduces people we can see easily around us. A fireman, a doctor and more who builds our community into a good community.

I can read this book when the theme is community to introduce people that students can see that they are there to help everyone. I can also introduce class room jobs and explain that we can be a community of our own as well.

[Liz Lowe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Informative book about community helpers.