People Who Help Us Level: Key Stage 1 - Cross-curricular activities
Music
Kindergarten - 1st Grade
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Group work
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Interactive
Audio-visual learning
Generation Kind, an RSPCA initiative
The RSPCA has an ongoing education programme about helping animals, with information and fantastic resources for Key Stage 1 children. Find out more here!
Who Can Help Us?
The children could produce a Who Can Help Us? podcast using Garage Band. The children are all allocated a line to say:
- I need help to cross the road!
- Who can help?
- I can help - I'm a lollipop man!
- I need help!
- I'm lost!
- I can help - I'm a policewoman!
Here are some instructions for creating a podcast using Garage Band. Be aware that, as updates are rolled out, the format may change:
If life feels too short to tackle Garage Band, instead the children could make a big chart on which they write the statements and stick on pictures of the people who can help us.
What If? (PSED and Literacy links)
A poem for thinking about some of the people who help us to get through difficult times.
- What if all the shops were closed
- And had no drinks for us?
- We’d all be hungry and thirsty
- And we'd make a lot of fuss!
- __
- What if there was no internet
- And parcels never came?
- We’d have to ask the online stores
- To open once again.
- __
- What if we had no rescue service
- Then we had a flood?
- We’d all wade through the water
- And go squelching in the mud.
- __
- What if we never thanked our friends
- For help when things get bad?
- They wouldn't want to play again
- And then we would be sad.
- _
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