Kindergarten Daily Reading Activities: Community Helpers

Serving the community is about giving back through acts of kindness, volunteering, and supporting those in need. When we work together, we build a stronger and more compassionate society. Here are five days of reading lessons that explore how we can be helpers in our communities.

Day 1 activity

Let’s watch: Let’s Go to Work Watch the video Let's Go to Work to learn how firefighters get ready for a day's work.

Discuss the video

How do firefighters help people? What is one tool a firefighter uses to do their job?

Let’s read: See Me Work People do different jobs. Learn what jobs the people you see in the photos do. Download See Me Work

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Choose an activity to extend the fun.

Project: Draw a job

• Think of a job you know that is not in the text.
• Draw a picture of someone doing that job.
• Write a sentence using this frame: See me _____. My job is to _____.

Hands-on activity: Guess the job

• Take turns acting out jobs from the text.
• Choose a job from the text and silently act it out.
• Have your partner guess which job you are acting out.
• Switch roles until you have acted out all the jobs in the text.

Family support Use this learning guide to walk your child through the lesson. Explore additional review & extend activities together.

Day 2 activity

Let’s reread: See Me Work People do different jobs. Learn what jobs the people you see in the photos do. Download See Me Work

Take it further

Choose an activity to extend the fun.

Vocabulary & language: Make action word flashcards

• Write each action word from the text on an index card.
• On the other side of the card, draw a picture of the action word.
• Show the picture side of the cards to a partner so he or she can guess the action words.

Response writing: Ask questions about a job

• Think of a job you would like to know more about.
• Use the question words who, what, where, when, and why to write or dictate questions you can ask someone who does this job. For example: Who do you ____? What ____ do you ____? Where do you ____? When do you ____? Why ____?

Family support Use this learning guide to walk your child through the lesson. Explore additional review & extend activities together.

Day 3 activity

Let’s watch: Helping Hands   Watch the video Helping Hands to learn more about different ways we can help each other.

Discuss the video

Name two things the characters did to help out. How can you lend a hand?

Let’s read: Give and Take   If you want something, you can give away something else or help someone. Read how that works! Download Give and Take

Take it further

Choose an activity to extend the fun.

Hands-on activity: Practice “thank you” sayings

• Practice saying thank you by adding a word or phrase to the expression or using different words. For example, you could say “Thanks a million!” or “Thanks. You’re the greatest!”
• Complete phrases like these: “Thanks. That’s _____.” “Thanks so much. You _____.” “You’re _____. Thanks a bunch.”
• Share your thank you sayings.

Project: Make a give and take book

• Imagine you are cleaning out your closet. You will need to give away one toy. You will take a favorite toy to keep.
• Draw a picture of what you will take and what you will give away.
• Make a cover for your book that includes the words Give and Take.

Family support Use this learning guide to walk your child through the lesson. Explore additional review & extend activities together.

Day 4 activity

Let’s reread: Give and Take   If you want something, you can give away something else or help someone. Read how that works! Download Give and Take

Take it further

Choose an activity to extend the fun.

Response writing: Write about Give and Take

• Write sentences about how you give to others and take from others at home. Complete these sentences: I give something when I _____. I take something when I _____.
• Share your sentences with a partner.

Research connection: Explore bike safety

• It is important to follow safety rules when riding a bike. Work with a partner to use online sources or nonfiction books to find out safety rules for bike riders.
• Draw a picture that shows you following an important bike safety rule.
• Share what you learned about being safe when riding a bike.

Family support Use this learning guide to walk your child through the lesson. Explore additional review & extend activities together.

Day 5 activity

Let’s review

This week you've learned about how people help each other in families and communities. Today, read and talk more about how different jobs can help.

Let’s read: Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! There are so many different jobs to do! Read to find out more about them. Download Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!

Take it further

Extend the fun with an activity.

Hands-on activity: Make a map

• Draw a map of your community or neighborhood. Label the different jobs you see people doing. How else do you see people helping?

Family support Have children tell a story about themselves or someone they know being a helper. Encourage them with prompts, such as “And then what happened?” They can also act out the story with costumes and props. Discuss how helping others can make a community strong.

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This blog, originally published in 2020, has been updated for 2025.