Community helpers Unit Flashcards for Kindergarten ESL

These community helpers flashcards are a great starting point for your ESL lessons and can be used throughout the unit in different activities. 👉 Click below to get the full resource and save planning time while keeping your students engaged.

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 These Community Helpers flashcards are designed to help preschool and kindergarten students learn new vocabulary through clear visuals and interactive activities. Flashcards are a powerful tool for building vocabulary, improving memory, and supporting early speaking skills.

This Community Helpers ESL resource is designed for preschool and kindergarten students, combining vocabulary, speaking activities, games, and hands-on practice. With a variety of materials, you can easily build engaging lessons that support both language development and social awareness.

Community Helpers Flashcards that will appeal to your visual learners. Use them to teach the new vocabulary, to play games or to decorate your classroom. Students will be able to identify and name the community helpers as a speaking activity.

Print and laminate for your convenience. If not, just put them into clear plastic sheets. The most common words are included ,such as: chef, cashier,doctor,teacher,nurse, baker,firefighter,waiter, police officer, mail carrier, gardener, trash collector, bus driver,astronaut,waiter,waitress,dentist,vet.

How to use the Community Helpers Flashcards for Preschool ESL

   Introduce the people that they already know such as teacher, students, along with librarian and principal.
Teacher: This is the teacher!
                These are the students.

Teacher: Who is this?
                She is the Principal.

·       Place several community helpers flashcards on the board to show the difference between he and she.
Teacher: He is the waiter!
                She is the waitress.

ESL community helpers, What are they wearing? 

The learning goal is to match the hats to the community helpers.

PPlace several kinds of hats on the board and have the students match each community helper to each hat.Have students identify that worksers wear specific hats and clothes.

   Community Helpers work in a location activity

ESL preschool students can use their visual discrimination skill to match the job to a town location.

Use the board to match the workser to their workplace. Place the hospital flashcard in the middle of the board and ask the students who works there.

Teacher: Who works at the hospital?

Students: The doctor! The nurse!

Do the same with the restaurant.

Have the students match the people to the workplace using the vocabulary cards. Model a sentence and have the students repeat.

Teacher: The bank manager is at the bank.

Students: The mail carrier is at the post office.

More examples with the people who help us. Ask questions to the learners in the classroom.

Teacher: Where does the zookeeper work?

Students: At the zoo!

   All community helpers have tools that relate to them 

Hold a tool vocabulary flashcard one at a time as students identify who uses it. Match the flashcards on the board with your students help.
Teacher: Who is this?
Students: The nurse!
Teacher: What is her tool?
Students: Thermometer!

Place the community helpers on the board and have the students find their tools and place them next to each person.

Or do the opposite, just place the things and have the students find the community helper that the items belongs to their job.

 Have several students come to the front and hand in a random community helper vocabulary visual card. Ask questions.

Teacher: Who are you?

Student: I am a waiter.

All your students might be thinking what they want to be when they grow up.

Well, have them grab a flashcard and stand in front of the class and say the sentence.

Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up?

Student 1: an astronaut!

Community Helpers Games with the flashcards

  Play RUN TO!! 

Place the community helpers flashcards around your classroom, pick different locations such as the door, a window, a backpack, on a desk, in the trash can. Have your students run to a community helper when you describe him/her.

Teacher: She has a white coat and a stethoscope. She’s a doctor.

Sorting The Jobs Flashcards

     Make a review of the clothes as students have fun sorting all the clothes that the community helpers wear on the board.

These worksheets are part of a complete Community Helpers Unit designed for ESL preschool and kindergarten students.Go to the blog post:    https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/12/community-helpers-worksheets-for.html

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