Community Showcase
Mrs. Calvert’s Students Become Village Architects!
This project integrates social studies, reading, writing, listening, speaking, art, and technology. After studying our own community and reading about others, students began creating their own towns. They included community helpers that are important to make a community thrive: police officers, firefighters, stores, homes, and transportation to name a few. We created town maps using Neighborhood Map Machine in the computer lab.
In our writing piece used for the pod casts, students honed their skills in paragraph writing. Students have been studying main idea and supporting details. Using graphic organizers, we examined our words choice so as to persuade someone to move to our town. We also included a closing sentence to sum up our thoughts. Some of our advanced writers used graphic organizers to learn when to break for a new paragraph and use transitional words and phrases to help their writing flow.
The children were very creative and had a great deal of fun while working. We hope you enjoy listening to our writing. Maybe you will find a town that is just right for you!
Class Congresswoman, Claire, says, “Come to Bearmont, Your children will be amazed with all of the kinds of bears in the zoos and in the wild. (P.S. no bear attacks, good bears only)” Are you interested?Click here for information.
According to Junior Town Planner Jack, “Jack Town is the best town ever!” Interested in finding out why? Click here to learn more.
Class travel agent, Nicole, suggests, “I think you should move to Reginaville because we have good restaurants, it’s calm, and any pet can go into a store.” But wait, there’s more. Click here for information.
Junior Town Planner Griffin declares, “Seaside is the best place in the whole galaxy.” Interested in finding out why? Click here to learn more.
Future Architect, Adolis, believes, “I think people would like to move to my town because there are many toy stores.” Interested in learning more? Click here.
Future Mayor, Georgina, observes, “Family Town is a splendid place to live because there are no criminals and you can bring pets.” Does this sound like a place where you would live? Click here to learn more.
Future urban builder, Eric, explains, “I think people would like to move to my town because it is nice. There are many toy stores…” Interested in learning more? Click here.
Marketing executive, Beatriz, exclaims, “Springvalley is the BEST town ever!!” But wait, there’s more. Click here to find out what.
Future Police Chief, Dylan, says, “Sideville is the best town ever! There are lots of free pools.” Interested to hear more about Sideville?Click here.
Future Senator, Jake, proclaims, “Oceanside is the best city ever! There are really good people here.” He really means it. Click here to find out why.
Class travel agent, Danica, says, “Water Round is the BEST town ever! There are houses for everybody.” But wait, there’s more. Click here for information.
Junior Architect, Paul, believes, “Our town has the best houses.” Interested to learn more? Click here.
Future Advertising Executive, Katie Z., explains, “I think Sweet Town is the best town ever because it is called Sweet Town. Everyone will want to live there.” Do you want to hear more? Click here.
Junior Architect, Katie, says, “I think people would like to move to my town because it is a good town.” Interested to learn more? Click here.
Junior businesswoman Cassidy exclaims, “Come to Sunset Island! It is a great place for you and your family.” Are you interested?Click here for information.
Junior Town Planner Liam declares, “In Irishville all of the houses have huge backyards.” How can you go wrong with that? Click here to learn more.
Future Mayor Jackson proclaims, “Jacksonville is the best village in the world. Jacksonville has the best shops in the universe.” Interested in finding out why? Click here to learn more.
Junior Town Builder Humberto explains, “I think people would like to move to my town because it has everything.” How can you go wrong with that? Click here to learn more.
Junior Architect, Gabriel, says, “I think people would like to move to my town because it is a good town.” Interested to learn more? Click here.