Community Helpers and Their Tools Flashcards | Jobs Tools Cards | 28 Pages

Community helpers and their tools flashcards

These community helpers and their tools flashcards are a packet of 28 card pages, each titled Jobs Tools! with a grid of tool pictures and one printed word under every picture. Most pages hold nine cards in three rows, and a few hold six or eight.

The set is made for teachers and parents who run a jobs or community helpers unit and want picture cards of the tools that go with each job. The tools come back on many pages in new borders and colors, so children see each word again and again as they go through the pages.

The pages are titled Jobs Tools, so the jobs tools flashcards fit a unit on jobs, trades and daily work. Teachers who want community helpers tools cards for a bulletin board or a center can print the pages they need. The tools flashcards printable pages work as jobs and tools picture cards for matching a tool to a job, with a little help from you to say who uses it.

What’s on the pages

Every card page has a Jobs Tools! heading in colorful letters, with solid or dashed borders around the cards and small stars and confetti around the edges. The page designs change, so the 28 pages do not all look alike.

• Health and science tools: stethoscope, thermometer, syringe, microscope, test tube and flashlight.
• Building and repair tools: hammer, wrench, saw, pliers, trowel, hard hat, toolbox and tape measure.
• Kitchen tools: frying pan, pot, whisk, rolling pin, saucepan and chef’s hat.
• School and office items: chalkboard, textbook, notebook, pencil, laptop, calculator, briefcase and ruler.
• Other tools: paintbrush, camera, scissors, whistle, fire extinguisher, gavel and plunger.

The pictures are simple objects with no people on them, and each one has its name printed below it in a clear font.

What’s in the download

The community helpers and their tools flashcards pdf has 31 pages in total.

• Name page: 1 page with lines for name, class and date
• Tool cards: 28 pages
• Two closing pages with a thank you note and copyright information

Everything comes as PDF, so you can print one page for a small group or the whole set. The words are already printed on the cards, so there is nothing to write by hand, and the large pictures are easy to see from across a table.

How to use community helpers and their tools flashcards

Print the pages you want and cut the cards apart along their borders. Hold up a card, say the word and ask the class which job might use that tool.

A few ways to use the cards:

• Show a stethoscope, a whisk and a hammer and ask children to name a job for each.
• Lay out nine cards from one page and ask the child to point to the one you name.
• Sort the cards into kitchen, building, school and health tools.
• Play a guessing game where you describe a tool and the class holds up the matching card.
• Pin a page on a jobs bulletin board next to a class jobs display.

Community helpers and their tools flashcards work best in short rounds of five or six cards. Add a few new cards each lesson and bring back the older ones for review. A short chat about who would use each tool is enough to turn a vocabulary lesson into a jobs lesson.

Take a look at the preview pages before you buy, so you can see the layout and the pictures.

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