Preschool People Who Help Us worksheets

About this worksheet

Community helpers are the people whose work meets a need that lots of families share: teaching, growing food, putting out fires, mending people, keeping a road safe to cross. Preschoolers usually recognize the uniform or the truck long before they connect it to the service, and they will happily pick the fire engine for a lost library book because the fire engine is the more memorable picture. Every question here is one short sentence the grown-up asks: who cooks the food, who puts out the fire, who helps when you are sick. The child answers by pointing at a picture of the helper, and each helper is drawn with the tool of the job, the teacher with a board, the doctor with a stethoscope, the builder with a hard hat and a hammer.

A few questions ask for a vehicle or a building instead, the ambulance, the fire engine, the library and the hospital. Any person can do any of these jobs, and the pictures are deliberately mixed. Extend the page by naming helpers your child actually sees, and by saying exactly what work each one does, which is the part that sticks.

What your child will learn

• Match a helper to the job they do
• Match a helper to the tool of their trade
• Match a helper's vehicle or building to the help it gives
• Choose the right helper for an everyday need

Head Start ELOF standard: P-SE 1, D2.Civ.2.K-2