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Grade 2 · Unit 3 · Mi Escuela y Mi Comunidad

Los Ayudantes
The Helpers

Community helpers and what they do: the doctor, the firefighter, the teacher — jobs get names and sentences get verbs.

🎯 Novice Mid (emerging)📚 3 lessons planned🚧 Lessons in production

Unit objectives

  • Name eight community helpers
  • Match helpers to what they do: El doctor ayuda
  • Say what they want to be: Quiero ser…

Can-Do targets

  • I can name the people who help my community.
  • I can say what a helper does.
  • I can say what I want to be when I grow up.

Vocabulary scope

el doctor / la doctora, el bombero, la policía, el dentista, la enfermera, el maestro, trabaja, ayuda, quiero ser

How this unit builds

First job vocabulary plus third-person verbs (trabaja, ayuda) — sentences about someone else for the first time.

Planned lessons

What this unit will contain

Lessons are produced in the same fully interactive format as Kindergarten — flashcards with audio, games, listening tasks, and take-home activities — and will unlock here as they are finished.

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Lesson 1

Los trabajos — meet the helpers

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Lesson 2

¿Qué hace? — what they do

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Lesson 3

Quiero ser — dreaming forward

Cultural connection

Same helpers, everywhere

Fire trucks, clinics, and classrooms look remarkably similar across the Americas — communities everywhere organize around helpers. Students spot the similarities.