Lifeguard — solve it right on the sheet.

What this worksheet teaches.

What the child is learning: What a lifeguard watches for at the pool, the safe swimming rules on the sheet — and the two unsafe ones to catch — plus how to write the word LIFEGUARD.

Knowledge to have ready: A lifeguard sits high where the whole pool is in view, with a whistle for warnings and a rescue float for saving. The safe rules on this sheet: swim with a grown-up and walk on the pool deck. The tricky two? Running near the pool and diving in the shallow end — the red cross and green check marks have opinions about all four!

Why this activity matters: Water is the most serious safety topic in this whole collection, and four-year-olds are exactly the right age to start the rules. The check-and-cross marks let your child judge each rule out loud — sorting safe from unsafe is the core skill of every pool summer to come.

• Community helper vocabulary
• Pool-safety rules
• Safe-versus-unsafe sorting
• Tool matching
• Word tracing
• Safety drawing

What to say before you start: "This is a lifeguard — the helper who watches over everyone in the water. Trace the name, then connect the whistle, the rescue float and the pool. Now the four rules: which are safe? The green checks and red crosses have opinions! Count the beach balls, and then draw YOU being safe near water."

What to look for on the sheet: Find the rescue float and ask who it is for — a tired swimmer, held out long before any trouble. In the grid, read each rule aloud and ask your child to judge it before peeking at the marks: is running safe on a wet, slippery deck? In the draw box, walking feet matter most.

Questions to ask along the way: "What does the lifeguard’s whistle mean?" "Which two rules are safe, and what makes them safe?" "Why do we walk near the pool?" "Who is YOUR grown-up in the water, every single time?"

Helpful hints without giving it away: Two rules keep swimmers safe and two are sneaky — the fast ones. Ask of each rule: would the lifeguard’s whistle blow at this? The green check means safe and the red cross means never; listen to both.

Parent tips: The non-negotiables, said warmly and often: never swim without a grown-up, walk on the deck, and ask before going near ANY water — pools, buckets, ponds. Practise the walking feet on a real deck edge this summer; legs remember what pencils rehearse.

Understanding check: Ask: "Who watches the pool? Name one safe rule and one unsafe rule you caught. What does the red cross mean?" The lifeguard, the rules, no-never = the sheet landed.

Real-life practice: At the next pool or bath, rehearse the sheet: grown-up first, walking feet, ask permission. Give your child the job of spotting the real lifeguard at every pool you visit — the watcher of the water, found in real life.

This activity belongs to Class 33 — Community Helpers & Our Neighborhood on the Learning Path. Progress is saved on this device for the child chosen in My Classroom — and only a real save of finished work marks it cleared, never just opening the page.