In Social Studies we are talking all about communities.

What is a community? —-> Who lives in a community? —-> What is inclusion? —-> What does an inclusive community look like?

Students are working in groups to design and construct their very own community. We are in the preliminary  stages were we are (a) learning to effectively and respectfully communicate to our group members (b) actively communicating to have our ideas expressed and heard; but also to have a listening ear and open mind to others’ ideas (c) plotting out and brainstorming how our community would appear from a bird’s eye view perspective.

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Questions and criteria to consider include the following:

• include at least 5 occupations in your community, what will those be?
• include roads as a form of transportation throughout your community
• what rules/and or laws will your community live by? —-> this led to a conversation around why do we need rules/laws to live by? —-> what would our class, school, community, country, world look like without laws?
• include natural resources within/and or surrounding your community
• how will your community protect + conserve the natural resources surrounding your community?

We read the book The Big Umbrella by Amy June Bates (which is a wonderfully adorable book with a powerful message). Ask your child how the big umbrella was inclusive? How are you inclusive to others around you? How do you contribute to living in an inclusive community?