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Classroom Jobs

Classroom jobs help kindergarteners build responsibility, learn routines, and develop a sense of community.

Create a classroom display with rotating student responsibilities so everyone can contribute. Keep tasks simple, visual, and easy to manage.

Daily Classroom Jobs

Line Leader / Caboose - Guides the class and ensures everyone is safely in line when moving between rooms.

Door Holder - Holds the classroom door open for the rest of the students when transitioning.

Librarian - Helps organize and straighten the books in the classroom reading corner.

Supply Manager - Organizes scissors, glue, and writing tools or puts them away at the end of the day.

Board Cleaner - Erasing the whiteboard or chalkboard at the end of a lesson or the end of the school day.

Plant Helper - Takes care of the classroom greenery, which teaches kindergarteners about nature, growth, and gentle handling.

Table Captain - Acts as the leader and manager for their specific table or group of desks.

Recycling Monitor - Ensuring recyclable items go into the correct bin instead of the trash.

Lights Monitor / Electrician - Turns the classroom lights on or off when leaving or entering the room.

Classroom Greeter - Welcomes students, teachers, and visitors into the room, creating a friendly and inclusive environment.

Pencil Patrol - Ensures the classroom always has a supply of ready-to-use pencils, preventing interruptions during writing time.

Sanitizer /Soap Helper - Helper ensures that everyone cleans their hands properly before eating, after recess, or during bathroom transitions.

Paper Passer - Hand out worksheets, crayons, or craft supplies to classmates.

Chair Stacker - Helps clear the floor at the end of the day so the janitorial staff can easily sweep and mop

Table wiper - Cleans the tables with a wet wipe or cloth after snacks or art time.

Title Ideas for the Display

“Helping Hands”

“Our Classroom Team”

“Classroom Leaders”

“We All Help!”

“Working Together”

“Today’s Helpers”

Display options:

Pocket Chart, magnetic board or a combination of both.

Learning Outcome: Children relate cooperation and collaboration to achieving common goals.

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This editable template can be used to talk about significant community spaces around Lethbridge.

Print cards and Mod Podge onto blocks for small world play area.

Use as inspiration cards for block/ building center.

Customize or use images provided!

Link:

https://canva.link/8p372t6dnx5es4s

How To Edit Template:

1. Open link above

2. Click File --> Make a Copy

3. Customize for your own class/school

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This cross-curricular inquiry invites students to explore cultures and community through hands-on, play-based learning. Students can discuss people and places in their own community, talk about the differences between natural and human-made environments, explore 3D shapes, discuss needs/wants, and examine how communities might change over time.

Students collaborate to design and build their own “favourite spaces” using a variety of materials such as cardboard boxes, paper, and loose parts. Real-life images of landmarks, community spaces, and familiar logos can be used as inspiration to support authentic connections. As the project develops, students enhance their community by adding roads, people, and natural elements (e.g., trees, rocks), creating a rich environment for small-world dramatic play where they can act out personal stories and experiences.

To ensure the project reflects the diverse experiences of the classroom community, families can be invited to share meaningful places through a simple parent letter (such as the Questionnaire provided in the Padlet).

Extension Activities/Cross-Curricular Connections:

Science- Human-Made/Natural Objects:

Discuss how buildings and other spaces are human-made.

Create natural spaces and objects, such as trees, lakes, and other landforms to add to the community.

Play “20 Questions”: Choose a human-made or natural object and have students guess by asking questions such as “Is it human-made?”

Outdoor/ Land-Based Learning:

Respectful Use of Materials: Teach students to gather natural items respectfully (only what is on the ground, take only what is needed), introducing early stewardship and care for the land

Discuss the Land as the First Community: Guide conversations about how plants, animals, and insects also form communities and have needs (food, shelter, water)

Caring for Our Community and Land: Introduce simple actions like picking up garbage, protecting plants, and respecting shared spaces to reinforce responsibility and belonging.

FNMI Perspectives: Introduce the idea that the land is important to many communities and should be respected and cared for.

Sit-Spots for Observation and Connection: Students regularly visit a chosen outdoor “sit-spot” to quietly observe, reflect, and build a personal connection to the land.

Dramatic Play: Students deepen their understanding of community roles and places.

Grocery Store, Doctors Office, Pizza Shop, Restaurant, Tim Hortons, etc.

Connection to PEW- LO: Children Explore Money

Numeracy- 2D and 3D Shapes:

When designing and creating buildings, students can explore and discuss the 2D and 3D shapes found in nature and the real-world.

Building and creating with blocks. Students can create their own structures from blocks and other 3D shapes. Images of real buildings can be used for inspiration.

Book: Dreaming Up

Literacy:

Students can discuss and share about the places they chose.

Children explore listening and speaking skills through a variety of literacy experiences:

Logos and Signs.

Recognize some environmental print automatically.

Researching and Printing:

Ask questions about real people, places, or things to learn more about them.

Attempt to spell unknown words, using letter-sound relationships.

Copy environmental print to become familiar with how words are spelled.

Social Studies: Systems (Needs and Wants)

After learning about needs and wants, students classify community spaces as needs or wants through guided discussion.

Do any important places need to be added to the community to ensure all needs are met? (“We don’t have a hospital!”).

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As a class, work together to create a set of classroom rules and expectations that reflect how students will work together and treat one another throughout the school year. Record these ideas and display somewhere easy for students to see and refer back to. To foster a sense of ownership and community, invite students to contribute to the display by adding photos, self-portraits, handprints, signatures, or other collaborative elements. This activity pairs well with mentor texts about classroom community, and can be completed during the first week of school.

Learning Outcome:

Social Studies: Children relate cooperation and collaboration to achieving common goals.

Literacy: Children explore listening and speaking skills through a variety of literacy skills ​

PEW: ​

Children explore fair play through a variety of physical activities.​

Children recognize boundaries in various situations.

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Learning Outcome: Children explore expressions of traditions, cultures, and histories.

Skills and Procedures:

Share traditions, cultures, languages, and histories of personal or family significance.

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Image Source: School District 83 (Falkland Elementary School), Edmonton Catholic School District  (100 Voices Resource)

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Select a kindergarten-friendly land acknowledgement or create one as a class that is meaningful to your space. Display in the classroom and incorporate it into your classroom routine to support student understanding and respect for the land and its peoples.

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Community Superheroes | Kids Read Aloud Books | Classroom Read Alouds | Learning About Community

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Incorporate regular sharing circles or carpet sharing times into your classroom routine to support student voice, listening skills, and community building. Provide opportunities for students to share their ideas, experiences, and feelings in a respectful and inclusive environment, reinforcing expectations for turn-taking, active listening, and empathy.

Some examples of sharing topics might be:

Share about their weekend​

Share a trophy/outfit/ medal from a team or group they belong to​

Bring a family picture to the classroom​

Have students bring items, clothing, or artifacts from their cultural backgrounds to support discussions and learning about cultural diversity

Learning Outcomes:

Social Studies: Children relate cooperation and collaboration to achieving common goals.

Skills and Procedures: Identify groups of personal belonging

Literacy: Children explore listening and speaking skills through a variety of literacy skills ​

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Read Aloud: All Are Neighbors by Alexandra Penfold | Stories with Star

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Learning Outcome: Children relate cooperation and collaboration to achieving common goals.

Identify groups of personal belonging.

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Cooperative play is when children play together, share ideas, and work as a team to reach a common goal.

What it looks like in your classroom

Building one big block tower together

Playing house and acting out roles

Working together to complete a puzzle

Sharing materials at a play center

Taking turns and helping friends

Parachute and other cooperative gym games

Board games or other turn taking games

Dramatic play center

Sensory, sand, and light tables

Collaborative art project

Learning Outcomes: Children relate cooperation and collaboration to achieving common goals.

Skills and Procedures:

·     Evaluate the benefits of cooperation and collaboration.

·     Demonstrate ways that people can cooperate

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Which Communities Do You Belong To? (Places in Communities) In Learning Commons 

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Which Communities Do You Belong To Kinder

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Our Class is a Family (places in communities) Youtube & Learning Commons

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Our Class is a Family (places in communities) Youtube & Learning Commons

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Vooks - Stories and Read Alouds for Kids

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Our Class is a Family Read Aloud | Animated Kids Book | Vooks Narrated Storybooks

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All Are Welcome – 🏫 Read aloud kids book about diversity and going to school!

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The Pigeon Needs a Bath! Youtube & Learning Commons (Needs & Wants)

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The Pigeon Needs a Bath! Youtube & Learning Commons (Needs & Wants)

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The Pigeon Needs a Bath! by Mo Willems | A Pigeon Read Aloud

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RDPSD Science Resources - Science K - Matter Books

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RDPSD Science Resources - Science K - Matter Videos

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RDPSD Science Resources - Science K - Matter Websites

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Check out this Presentation designed by Nathaniel Siler.

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RDPSD Science Resources - Science K - Energy Books

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RDPSD Science Resources - Science K - Energy Videos

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Please note that due to the curricula of the energy units in kindergarten and grade one being very similar, you may want to take a look at the Science 1 resources if you find this page rather limited.

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RDPSD Science Resources - Science K - Energy Websites

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Stepping Into Science Earth Systems Kinder

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Check out this Presentation designed by Nathaniel Siler.

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RDPSD Science Resources - Science K - Earth Systems

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Science K - Earth Systems Stepping Into Science Activities

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RDPSD Science Resources - Science K - Earth Systems Videos

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URL : https://mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org/home

Synopsis: This app allows you to look over a map of our world and place all sorts of layers of information. Pertaining to this unit, if you place a layer with the biomes of the world, you can have students click on any location in the world, and find out not only what type of environment (biome) it is, but you can also attain information on the status of humankind's impact on that area of the world.

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RDPSD Science Resources - Science K - Earth Systems Websites

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Vooks - Stories and Read Alouds for Kids

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Our Class is a Family Read Aloud | Animated Kids Book | Vooks Narrated Storybooks

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All Are Welcome – 🏫 Read aloud kids book about diversity and going to school!

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Problem Solving and Cooperation Strategies

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Problem Solving and Cooperation Strategies

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These activities can be used at the beginning of the school year (and throughout) to help children learn how to work together, build communication skills and resolve conflicts:

Problem Solving Wall and Visuals:

A visual area that reminds children of steps and choices for solving problems independently.

Role Play:

Allows children to practice social situations before they happen in real life. Role play scenarios can be acted out by students or teachers.

"What Would You Do?" Cards/Games:

Discussion cards or scenarios that encourage critical thinking and empathy.

Cards and examples can be found online or teacher created.

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I Promise – 🏀 Inspirational read aloud children's book by NBA superstar LeBron James!

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The More We Get Together | Barefoot Books Singalong

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Fire Chief Fran | Reading Books for Kids

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Collaboration Station Youtube & Learning Commons (Cooperation & Collaboration)

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Collaboration Station Youtube & Learning Commons (Cooperation & Collaboration)

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💫 Collaboration Station by Shannon Olsen & Sandie Sonke | Kid's Book Read Aloud

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Wherever You Go (kindness, belonging) - in Learning Commons

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Wherever You Go (kindness, belonging) - in Learning Commons