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Grade 2 · Unit 3 · Mi Escuela y Mi ComunidadLos Ayudantes
Los Ayudantes
The Helpers
Community helpers and what they do: the doctor, the firefighter, the teacher — jobs get names and sentences get verbs.
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.
In production
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Lesson 1Los trabajos — meet the helpers
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Lesson 2¿Qué hace? — what they do
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Lesson 3Quiero 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.